NSW: Sydney anglers offered blood tests

AAP General News (Australia)
04-20-2006
NSW: Sydney anglers offered blood tests

Sydney commercial anglers will be offered blood tests by the New South Wales government
.. after some were found with up to ten times the average level of toxic chemicals in
their bodies.

Premier MORRIS IEMMA made the announcement .. after an ABC television report revealed
a group of fishermen who ate fish from the harbour three to four times each week .. showed
high levels of dioxins in their blood.

He says the health department will offer up to 42 commercial anglers and their families
government-funded blood tests .. with the results to be examined by local and interstate
doctors.

Dioxins are toxic industrial chemicals that can concentrate in body fat .. and cause
serious skin lesions.

AAP RTV dmc/tam/wf/rt

KEYWORD: FISHING (SYDNEY)

2006 AAP Information Services Pty Limited (AAP) or its Licensors.