News, interviews and commentary on seafood food safety, seafood sanitation, seafood regulations and health.
By Lisa Duchene, SeafoodSource contributing editor
11 February, 2009
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today announced it postponed the date on which it will stop issuing export certificates for seafood products bound for the European Union and the European Free Trade Association.
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By Steven Hedlund, SeafoodSource editor
09 February, 2009
The Seattle company failed to disclose that the product may contain peanuts.
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By James Wright, SeaFood Business senior editor
06 February, 2009
Among the chemicals are the antibiotics flumequine and oxolinic acid and the pesticide emamectin benzoate, a sea lice deterrent commonly known as SLICE, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
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By Catherine Zhang, SeafoodSource contributing editor, reporting from Beijing
02 February, 2009
Due to recent food safety concerns, China is stepping up inspection efforts for seafood exports to Russia.
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By SeafoodSource staff
26 January, 2009
The Food Marketing Institute announced Friday that its board of directors has adopted a policy encouraging members to support sustainable seafood programs.
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By SeafoodSource staff
22 January, 2009
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration yesterday announced that it will stop issuing European Union Export Certificates after Feb. 17.
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By SeafoodSource staff
20 January, 2009
A report published in Environmental Health Perspectives found that women in coastal areas have higher-than-average mercury levels in their bodies.
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By SeafoodSource staff
19 January, 2009
The producers of "Speed-the-Plow" last week filed a grievance with the Actors' Equity Association against Jeremy Piven for leaving the Broadway show last month.
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By SeafoodSource staff
16 January, 2009
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration released a report that may prompt the agency to revise its seafood consumption advisory on methylmercury in seafood.
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By SeafoodSource staff
08 January, 2009
The United Kingdom’s Food Standards Agency is re-evaluating its seafood-consumption advice to consumers in light of sustainability concerns.
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By SeafoodSource staff
31 December, 2008
Three foreign workers were killed and 16 others were injured in an explosion caused by a gas leak at a Brunei seafood plant, the government reported Wednesday.
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By SeafoodSource staff
23 December, 2008
The Center for Consumer Freedom and the National Fisheries Institute are calling on actor Jeremy Piven to come clean about why he abruptly left the Broadway show “Speed-the-Plow” last week.
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By SeafoodSource staff
17 December, 2008
Twenty-nine people were hospitalized after being exposed to high levels of carbon monoxide inside or near the Home Port Seafood cold storage facility in Bellingham, Washington.
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By SeafoodSource staff
15 December, 2008
The U.S. FDA urged retailers and restaurant operators to halt sales of ungutted, salt-cured alewives, also known as gaspereaux fish, from Michel & Charles LeBlanc Fisheries Ltd. of New Brunswick because the fish may contain the Clostridium botulinum toxin.
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By SeafoodSource staff
12 December, 2008
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration wants to amend the federal government’s advisory that women and children should limit their consumption of fish because the health benefits outweigh any risks.
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By SeafoodSource staff
12 December, 2008
Ocean Beauty Seafoods issued a statement following the search of its Washington and California processing facilities.
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By SeafoodSource staff
11 December, 2008
A Louisiana shrimp processing plant, shut down last week because of odor complaints, reopened after the company struck an agreement with town officials.
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By SeafoodSource staff
10 December, 2008
Ocean Beauty Seafoods temporarily closed its Seattle processing facility at the request of federal agents.
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By SeafoodSource staff
01 December, 2008
The 180-day northern pink shrimp season begins today; it is the longest season since 1991.
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By Keith Crane, SeafoodSource contributing editor, from Guangdong Province, China
01 December, 2008
China is to resume exporting roast eel to Japan after a contamination scare earlier this year brought the trade to a virtual standstill.
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By SeafoodSource staff
25 November, 2008
Maine's Department of Marine Resources may have to slash funding for the state's red tide monitoring program to comply with mandatory budget cuts, a move shellfish harvesters say could put them out of business.
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By SeafoodSource staff
14 November, 2008
Yesterday the FDA issued an import alert detaining all milk products, milk-derived ingredients and finished food products containing milk from China, according to a member alert yesterday from the National Fisheries Institute.
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By SeafoodSource staff
13 November, 2008
A new poll conducted by the Consumer Reports National Research Center reveals that Americans expect more from the government when it comes monitoring the country's food supply.
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By SeafoodSource staff
30 October, 2008
After the discovery in China of melamine in eggs and milk powder, Shanghai’s Livestock Office will carry out full-scale checks for the chemical in feed used by the aquaculture industry.
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By SeafoodSource staff
29 October, 2008
A survey released today by a New York research and consulting firm found that nearly two-thirds of consumers are extremely concerned about the safety of products manufactured outside the United States.
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