Mateel Environmental Justice Foundation, a California nonprofit organization, and two other plaintiffs are suing fish oil manufacturers and pharmacies that sell the supplements because they have failed to alert consumers of high levels of man-made industrial chemicals (PCBs) found in the supplements. The plaintiffs say this is a violation of California’s right-to-know law.
“The people buying these fish oil supplements are not being told the PCBs are there,” says David Roe, the plaintiff’s attorney in an interview Kelley Campaigns coordinated with Alexandria Sage of Reuters.
Defendants include Houston-based Omega Protein, the world’s largest producer of omega-3 fish oil, as well as Rite Aid Corp and CVS Caremark Corp.
