News, interviews and commentary on seafood food safety, seafood sanitation, seafood regulations and health.
By SeafoodSource staff
30 November, 2010
A letter to the editor submitted by Joseph Sabbagh, president of Sax Maritime Associates in Los Angeles, in response to a 17 November “Today” report warning Americans about the safety of seafood imports.
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By Steven Hedlund, SeafoodSource editor
30 November, 2010
European and Bangladeshi scientists are suggesting that semicarbazide — the metabolic marker used to detect the illegal antibiotic nitrofurazone — may occur naturally in the shell of crustaceans.
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By SeafoodSource staff
30 November, 2010
The U.S. Senate on Tuesday passed a food-safety bill that has been on the backburner for a year, but without a recent amendment targeting shrimp imports.
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By SeafoodSource staff
29 November, 2010
U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) is in the final stages of crafting a measure that would require the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to increase its testing of imported shrimp from less than 2 percent to 20 percent by 2015.
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By SeafoodSource staff
29 November, 2010
Rapibhat Chandarasrivongs, Thailand’s agriculture minister, is weighing in on a U.S. TV news report questioning the safety of seafood imports.
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By SeafoodSource staff
19 November, 2010
According to a study published in this week’s issue of Science, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s assessment of genetically modified (GM) salmon fails to adequately weigh the impacts widespread production of the fish could have on human health and the marine environment.
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By SeafoodSource staff
19 November, 2010
U.S. Sen. Mark Begich (D-Alaska) on Thursday introduced legislation targeting genetically modified (GM) fish — one bill would prevent the U.S. Food and Drug Administration from approving GM fish and another bill would require the FDA to label GM fish as such if it’s approved.
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By SeafoodSource staff
09 November, 2010
A report released on Monday reaffirms seafood’s position as a “super food” and suggests that the protein’s healthful benefits are more far-reaching than dieticians and nutritionists realize.
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By Christine Blank, SeafoodSource contributing editor
05 November, 2010
Seafood industry representatives are contesting the latest mercury findings by Operation Safe Seafood, a GotMercury.org-led project.
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By SeafoodSource staff
04 November, 2010
Part two of a two-part interview with Roy Palmer, an organizer of the 2010 International Seafood and Health Conference & Exhibition in Melbourne, Australia, which kicks off on Saturday.
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By Steven Hedlund, SeafoodSource editor
03 November, 2010
As head of industry training and education for the Australian Seafood Cooperative Research Centre, CEO of Seafood Experience Australia and a SeafoodSource blogger, Palmer understands how difficult it can be to educate consumers about seafood, especially with all the misinformation surrounding it.
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By James Wright, SeaFood Business senior editor
01 November, 2010
U.S. scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and Food & Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday said that all Gulf of Mexico seafood samples tested for chemical dispersants are clean and safe to consume.
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By SeafoodSource staff
27 October, 2010
A new system of detecting nematodes, or roundworms, in cod fillets has been developed at the Norwegian Institute of Food, Fisheries and Aquaculture Research (Nofima) and is now being tested at a seafood processing plant in Finnmark, in northern Norway.
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By Christine Blank, SeafoodSource contributing editor
25 October, 2010
BP on Tuesday said it will provide the state of Florida with USD 20 million in funding for Gulf of Mexico seafood testing and marketing over the next three years.
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By Steven Hedlund, SeafoodSource editor
20 October, 2010
The National Fisheries Institute is again accusing the Catfish Farmers of America of distorting the truth and scaring consumers into believing that imported catfish and pangasius are unsafe to eat.
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By Christine Blank, SeafoodSource contributing editor
15 October, 2010
Some consumers — and even a few seafood professionals — don't believe that sniff tests are enough to detect oil in seafood. Louisiana State University's Jon Bell explains how the testing works.
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By SeafoodSource staff
14 September, 2010
The Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) on Wednesday re-launched an improved version of its online seafood calculator, designed to allow consumers to weigh health benefits associated with eating seafood against the risks, including the risks tied to the neurotoxin methylmercury.
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By Chris Dove, SeafoodSource contributing editor, reporting from Malaga, Spain
13 September, 2010
While baby-food manufactures in North America are just beginning to realize the importance of regularly including seafood in young children’s diets, the market for fish-flavored baby food in Europe and Asia is well established, but there’s still room for growth.
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By SeafoodSource staff
08 September, 2010
Slade Gorton & Co. of Boston on Wednesday announced that it was awarded a level-3 certification from the Safe Quality Food Institute (SQFI).
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By Chris Dove, SeafoodSource contributing editor, reporting from Malaga, Spain
07 September, 2010
Debate surrounding the toxicity of heavy metals such as lead, cadmium and mercury in fish continues in Spain after Oceana last month criticized the country’s government for failing to provide enough information on seafood imports and port inspections.
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By Lauren Kramer, SeaFood Business contributing editor
03 September, 2010
As kids we are taught that eating carrots leads to better vision. But in future years we could be telling our children the same thing about seafood. Among the many health benefits of seafood consumption, one presently being researched is age-related macular degeneration (AMD). A leading cause of blindness in the elderly — particularly among women — AMD is associated with a decrease in the optical density of the macular pigment of the eye.
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By Christine Blank, SeafoodSource contributing editor
24 August, 2010
Seafood caught in the Gulf of Mexico has not been found to contain levels of oil or chemicals that would be of concern to human health, said researchers at the American Chemical Society’s (ACS) Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Seminar on Tuesday.
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By SeafoodSource staff
23 August, 2010
The National Fisheries Institute is calling out the TV personality for a column that he and his colleague, Dr. Michael Roizen, wrote about contaminates in seafood. The piece ran in the 1 August issue of the Washington Examiner.
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By Chris Dove, SeafoodSource contributing editor, reporting from Malaga, Spain
18 August, 2010
Oceana is calling on the Spanish government to provide data on the toxicity of heavy metals such as methylmercury in the country’s fish species.
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By SeafoodSource staff
18 August, 2010
A new seafood-monitoring program organized by Sea Grant programs from Florida to Texas will try to assure consumers that Gulf seafood is fit for consumption.
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