Specifically, we're talking salmon caught in the Baltic Sea. The EU banned the export of Baltic salmon from Sweden back in 2002 due to the fact that they were found to be heavily contaminated with dioxins.

But that didn’t stop Swedish firms from selling 200 tons of the fish to companies in France, Denmark and the Netherlands.

A French firm that bought 103 tons of the Baltic salmon in 2011 and 2012 said they did their own tests which did not reveal dioxins in the fish.

"Nobody told us it was illegal," chief executive Francois Agussol told AFP.

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Norquist has a new opinion piece in Politico, and the problems begin with the headline: "W.H. talks wind energy but won’t support it."

Norquist's headline falls into a special category of click-bait -- it's so obviously untrue that you are forced to read the piece, just to figure out how something so ridiculous could have been published. Obama supports extending the production tax credit that is crucial to nurturing the wind energy industry. Romney opposes it. You could argue that government shouldn't be picking winners and losers, but you can't argue that Obama isn't supporting wind energy. Go ask an Iowa voter, where wind energy is responsible for thousands of jobs -- they know who backs wind energy and who doesn't.

Ah, but Norquist is wily. Here's the nut of his argument:

...[I]n another example of the schizophrenic nature of this administration’s energy policies, at the same time that it is promoting wind energy, the Obama White House and its environmentalist allies are seeking to scuttle the development of a crucial component in wind turbines: copper.

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