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In the Great Lakes area they are trying to clean PCB from the water. Can Zebra Mussels help at all in cleaning the toxins from water?

April 26, 2017area clean cleaning great lakes help Mussels PCB water zebra

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In the Great Lakes area they are trying to clean PCB from the water. Can Zebra Mussels help at all in cleaning the toxins from water?

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They can absorb PCBs, but then you have toxic zebra mussels which could be eaten by fish and ducks. If people eat those fish, the contaminants get passed up the food chain.