Food for Thought with Alex Bielak- Loaves and Fishes

Stainless Steel

In my younger days I used to poison fish for a living. To learn why that bit of trivia is not quite as disturbing as it sounds, read on. This may give you pause for thought about your holiday baking and actually help you with your Christmas shopping.

In the seventies, I was a budding biologist working as part of team to find out whether nickel and chromium interacted at very low concentrations to become more toxic to rainbow trout than either of these metals alone at far higher levels. Cool eh?

This was one of my first real jobs, and so I have always felt an affinity for toxicologists and the important work they do to keep us and the environment, safe.

So I was very interested when I read in the December edition of my favourite environmental policy bulletin,