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> The abundance of MPs per salt sample ranged from 0 per kg in the salt sample # France-F (i.e. Country of origin: France, brand F) to 10 in the salt sample # P
by vmarsy 10y ago
> The abundance of MPs per salt sample ranged from 0 per kg in the salt sample # France-F (i.e. Country of origin: France, brand F) to 10 in the salt sample # Portugal-N
I guess I'll keep buying the French Gros Sel de Guérande from world market, plus the fact that it tastes really good when sprinkled on meat :)
- FoeNyx 10y agoIt tastes good indeed, but in figure 3, France had 5 other brands containing some plastic polymers and/or pigment particles ... I now wonder from which brand is that F sample (clue : apparently packaged in a Glass container) Anyway the conclusion rather place the problem, not on the consumption of those salts, but in the gradual accumulation in products from the aquatic environments.
- matt4077 10y agoI happen to be trading in a fair bit of Fleur de Sel from Guérande, and can assure you that any difference between Portugal and our product can only be either chance, or almost deliberate efforts to sabotage the Portuguese product. They both start with the same "raw material": water of the Northern Atlantic, which I would think is mixed enough not be significantly different in these two locations. Guérande is probably one of the largest locations for sea salt, but the processes are far away from industrial scale. They manually remove contamination that they see, but I've found a few fish in the salt. Contamination at the millimetre-scale is tested for, but there are no filtration processes in place to reduce them.