Spirulina is already a staple in the tropical fish pet food market. Purposed for Market grown algae supplements should be thoroughly explored.

YES... A big yes..
In fact a algae by name, SPIRULINA has been declared as the most IDEAL food on Earth, by WHO, FDA etc, it is even grown on space... Www.iimsam.org, for reference..

I have started an Ngo on this to fight, Malnutrition, global warming and Poverty...
www.spirumahesh4malnutrition.blogspot.com...... It's super cool...

I think we need a standard for such algal protein similar to other foodstuff, for example FDA limits for the amount of heavy metals, sulphates etc. More research must be done.

Anna, do you know that the food we eat everyday is loaded with pesticides, flue gas grown algae are better in my opinion, at most they can have nitrates and sulphates.

I think it is better to avoid such dangerous stuff, already we are taking in enough carcinogens why burden our body with still more toxicants?

Algae would have such a short life exposed to those toxin compared to a veggie growing in the ground. The fda would surely want testing but then would egnor the findings & do what ever psayed the best.

Larsyn, what about the toxicants present in the flue gases? They can bioaccumulate in algae and can enter the food chain. So what norms and standards can you suggest for checking this? Will it be economically feasible. I think we must not take such risks.

People Have been eating food stuffs that were grown with animal waste since early civilization. Why would they have a problem with chemical production of food. The modern fertilizers used in food prodsuction are manufactured from petrolium or other chemicals. A hugh percentage of off the shelve food is created from GMO products & the FDA does not seem concerned. Look at the number of products containing hi fruitose corn syrup. That all comes from GM corn. Until the public wakes up to what they are eating Algae food suppliments should have no problem being excepted