News, interviews and commentary on seafood food safety, seafood sanitation, seafood regulations and health.
By SeafoodSource staff
23 March, 2012
Eurofins Scientific, which provides analytical support to the global agri-food market, on Friday said it plans to acquire Quality Trait Analysis (QTA) from BASF Corporation.
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By SeafoodSource staff
21 March, 2012
There’s just something about the American oysters that are growing in the Damariscotta River area. Maybe it’s the way the cold waters of the Atlantic mingle with the shallow, warmer water upstream. Maybe it’s the health of the clean estuaries thanks to the lack of foul storm-water runoff.
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By SeafoodSource staff
19 March, 2012
When diners sit down to a lobster dinner, they look forward to seeing a glistening red shell that tempts them to dig underneath — not a speckled, scabby brown crust thin enough to poke a fork through.
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By SeafoodSource staff
15 March, 2012
Foodborne disease outbreaks caused by imported food appeared to rise in 2009 and 2010, with seafood being the most common source, according to new research from the Center for Disease Control (CDC).
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By SeafoodSource staff
14 March, 2012
Handy International on Wednesday launched a formal DNA testing program for crabmeat, soft crabs, oysters and artisanal fish.
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By April Forristall, SeafoodSource assistant editor
13 March, 2012
“Be proactive” when it comes to dealing with the new Food Safety Modernization Act — that’s the main message that panelists delivered at the final conference of this year’s International Boston Seafood Show.
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By SeafoodSource staff
05 March, 2012
Inland Seafood has earned its Safe Quality Food 2000 Level 3 Certification from the Global Food Safety Initiative, placing it in a category of seafood processors with the highest standards of food safety and quality management.
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By SeafoodSource staff
05 March, 2012
Cozy Harbor Seafood, a Portland, Maine-based lobster, shrimp and finfish processor, has achieved British Retail Consortium (BRC) Level A re-certification for its food-safety and quality-management program.
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By SeafoodSource staff
02 March, 2012
As of March 11, Tradex Foods International will no longer test Chinese seafood products for radiation.
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By SeafoodSource staff
27 February, 2012
Testing practices of seafood exporters should be modified to meet standards and to improve the quality of products, said Viet Nam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP).
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By SeafoodSource staff
27 February, 2012
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency on Friday announced the launch of a two-year disease surveillance plan for British Columbia salmon.
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By Steven Hedlund, SeafoodSource editor
21 February, 2012
Helping consumers weigh the benefits of eating seafood against the risks and weed out misinformation about fish is the foundation of a new website and the basis of Thursday’s SeafoodSource webinar.
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By SeafoodSource staff
17 February, 2012
A team of scientists has come all the way from the United States to Port Lincoln to study southern bluefin tuna.
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By SeafoodSource staff
15 February, 2012
The food safety-watchdog in the northern municipality of Tianjin has vowed a thorough probe into its local seafood market, after online reports that the city’s shrimp were injected with gelatin-like chemicals to increase weight.
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By SeafoodSource staff
14 February, 2012
U.S. President Barack Obama’s proposed budget for fiscal 2013, introduced to Congress on Monday, includes USD 4.5 billion for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and USD 5.1 billion for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
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By SeafoodSource staff
10 February, 2012
Foreign importers of Vietnamese seafood will send delegations to the country this year to assess product quality, a Vietnamese official has said.
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By SeafoodSource staff
07 February, 2012
Three consumer groups are petitioning the FDA to treat genetically engineered salmon as a food additive so it’s evaluated with more rigor.
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By SeafoodSource staff
27 January, 2012
AquaBounty Technologies — the Massachusetts-based company behind genetically engineered (GE) salmon — is restructuring to reduce its operating costs by approximately 30 percent and increase its “cash runway.”
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By SeafoodSource staff
20 January, 2012
California State Assembly Appropriations Committee on Thursday rejected a bill that would have required that genetically engineered (GE) fish be labeled as such.
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By SeafoodSource staff
19 January, 2012
Thanks to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), everyone will breathe a little easier in the new year, apparently, as the agency begins enforcing tougher emission standards on coal-fired power plants.
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By SeafoodSource staff
18 January, 2012
Existing methods of removing norovirus in shellfish are an ineffective means of reducing contamination, according to a new report from a European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) panel.
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By SeafoodSource staff
17 January, 2012
Nofima on Tuesday announced that two new ISO traceability standards — one for wild fish and one for farmed — have been approved.
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By April Forristall, SeafoodSource assistant editor
10 January, 2012
Ciguatera — the world’s most common form of algal toxin-induced seafood poisoning — is extremely difficult to predict and manage. But a new five-year, USD 4 million grant from the U.S. government hopes to change that.
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By SeafoodSource staff
06 January, 2012
Maine clammers are concerned with the loss of state biologists, who support the shellfish industry and are charged with biological management of the marine resources.
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By SeafoodSource staff
05 January, 2012
Canada could have trouble keeping genetically engineered salmon out of the food supply if the U.S. government approves the first genetically engineered animal that people can eat.
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