Are You Going to Be Taking Fish Oil Supplements Again?

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There are plant base solutions, and there are also non plant base solutions. These include things such as crill oil or now ere even seeing zo planked and being caught for their oils to be packaged into dietary supplements. So after all this reporting, are you going to be taking fish oil supplements again? You know, i've never taken fish oil supplements. It was never ly recommended to me, but i had plenty of friends that took them for a variety of reasons. And i've had them tell me, after these stories have come out, that they're going to stop. So i believe them, and i personally won't be taking them. We'll have to look for other

They may be one of the world’s favourite supplements but, according to a recent study, more than one in 10 fish oil capsules are rancid. Most of the oil comes from Peruvian anchovetas, a type of anchovy, which is also used to feed pigs, poultry and farmed fish. And despite catching more than 4m tonnes a year of Peruvian anchovetas to cater to the global demand, large industry players want to scale this up even further. Madeleine Finlay speaks to environment journalist Richa Syal about why so many fish oil pills are rancid, and hears from journalist Dan Collyns in Chimbote, Peru, about how the industry is affecting the local environment and its residents. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/sciencepod