Framework and Case Studies

Abstract

This article presents an initial Comparative Dietary Risk Framework (referred to as the framework) that combines and compares the potential benefits and potential risks associated with eating contaminated fish. The results of this framework are preliminary, due to the multifactorial analysis involved. Thus, while the framework is a quantitative representation of the net risk (or benefit) associated with eating contaminated fish, it should be used to inform public health officials about the benefits and risk of eating contaminated fish and to investigate and compare various alternative fish protein sources, including perhaps other