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That's right, once again a warning about another kind of fish that was previously deemed safe. Researchers today said that farmed salmon is loaded with toxic chemicals, ten times as much as wild salmon. We're talking dioxin, we're talking PCBs. Deadly stuff, and especially vexing considering that farmed salmon is a lousy source of Omega-3s. "Farmed salmon taken from markets in Frankfurt, Edinburgh, Paris, London, Oslo, Boston, San Francisco, and Toronto had the highest levels, and the researchers said consumers should eat no more than one-half to one meal (4 to 8 ounces, uncooked) of salmon per month. Farmed salmon from supermarkets in Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Seattle, Chicago, New York and Vancouver had toxins high enough to suggest that people eat no more than two salmon meals a month." So on average, the lowdown: Don't eat salmon more than once a month.