North American media show interest in Norwegian doctoral study

Tor-Eddie Fossbakk This is the conclusion media in the United States have picked up on from a doctoral study by Sverre Ludvig Seierstad at the Norwegian School of veterinary Science. Foodconsumer.org wrote that the study showed patients eating a diet with salmon meat containing pure fish oil had a better profile of biomarkers for heart and vessel health compared to those who used diets with Salmon meat containing high vegetable oil. Vegetable oil has found increasing applications in fish farming as the marine source as fish feed has become scarce and expensive. The study wanted to see how vegetable oil in fish feed could affect the health of consumers and the fish. The study found the composition of fats in the feed had no effect on the development of constriction in the cardiac arteries of farmed salmon. Framed salmon still is commonly consumed although studies have showed that farmed salmon is more contaminated with environmental pollutants than wild salmon, Foodconsumer.org wrote. Capture: Sverre Ludvig Seierstad defended his Dr. Med. Vet. thesis with the title “The effect on fish and human health of replacing marine oils by vegetable oils in feeds of Atlantic salmon”, at the Norwegian School of Veterinary Science on February 15, 2008.