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Marine Harvest is world’s top sustainable food producer

Aquaculture giant Marine Harvest, which has been targeted by anti-fish farm activists in B.C. has topped the new sustainable food producers’ index, which is based on criteria such as use of antibiotics, animal welfare and food safety.

Together with Leroy Seafood Group and other aquaculture firms, Marine Harvest led the first Coller FAIRR Protein Producer index, which was launched this week and measures 60 global intensive farming companies against eight criteria.

The Norwegian aquaculture company Marine Harvest was highlighted for its approach to antibiotics.  The company tracks antibiotics usage on a gram of active substance per ton of product basis, and only uses antibiotics when fish are at risk…

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