This article describes the activities and recommendations of the Aquaveterinarian's Association (AVF) in Norway regarding the treatment, prevention and control of fish diseases and during fish processing, as well as discussions between the AVF and the Norwegian Food Safety Authority on food safety, ...

Pancreas disease (PD) is caused by Salmonid alphavirus (SAV). The disease affects salmonids in the sea. Occurs endemically in Norway in a PD zone (from Jærens reef to Skjemta) in the form of the subtypes SAV2 (north of Hustadvika) and SAV3 (south of Stadt). The rest of the coast are national...

Antimicrobial resistance is an increasing worldwide problem in both human- and veterinary medicine. The World Health Organization has defined antimicrobial resistance as one of our times main public health challenges. Infections caused by antimicrobial resistant bacteria will result in increased...

This article describes the use of lead-based ammunition by hunters in Norway, the negative impacts of lead residues and poisoning in wildlife and humans (due to ingestion of contaminated game meat) and the regulatory measures to address this issue.

The wreck of submarine U-864, located at around 150 m depth west of the island of Fedje, had large quantities of mercury on board when it was sunk in 1945, and the surrounding seafloor is heavily polluted with metallic mercury. The Institute of Marine Research annually monitors, on behalf of the...

This report shows results from 2017 in the annual monitoring of the Norwegian Coastal Administration of mercury in seafood at the U-864 submarine wreck west of Fedje. We analyzed samples of the broil fillet as well as raw and cooked bag crab. Only one of 69 brooms had mercury levels in the fillet...

In this study, we have during 2016-2019 mapped the levels of environmental toxins in 448 plaice (Pleuronectes platessa), 315 anglerfish (Lophius piscatorius) and 296 pike (Pollachius pollachius) fished along the coast of Norway and in the North Sea. Fillets from single fish and aggregate samples of ...

On assignment from The Environmental Agency, The Institute of Marine Research (IMR/HI) has performed screening for antibiotic resistant bacteria in marine bivalves collected along the Norwegian coast in June, July and August 2017. Totally, 26 sample batches of bivalves originating from 18 different ...

Ten different marine oils for human consumption; nine fish oils and one microalgae oil, were analysed for dioxins, dioxin-like PCBs, non-dioxin-like PCBs, polybrominated flame retardants, arsenic, cadmium, mercury, lead, selenium, 3-MCPD, 3-MCPD esters and glycidyl esters. The project was...

High pressure processing (HPP) is regarded as one of emerging technologies which aim at reducing thermal damage to foods without compromising food safety. This technology is based on subjecting food products to high pressure for a few minutes. HPP has gained momentum the last few years and...