News, interviews and commentary on seafood food safety, seafood sanitation, seafood regulations and health.
By SeafoodSource staff
01 November, 2012
Researchers at the University of Aberdeen are conducting a study to compare the effects on human health of eating farmed salmon fed two different diets.
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By SeafoodSource staff
29 October, 2012
Fish from the waters around the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan could
be too radioactive to eat for a decade to come, as samples show that
radioactivity levels remain elevated and show little sign of coming
down, a marine scientist has warned.
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By SeafoodSource staff
19 October, 2012
At least 950 people in the Netherlands are now known to have fallen ill
in a salmonella thompson outbreak linked to salmon. Three elderly
victims have died.
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By SeafoodSource staff
16 October, 2012
U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) has called upon the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) to take action on seafood fraud, which she said is
a financial and, in some cases, public health risk to consumers.
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By SeafoodSource staff
15 October, 2012
More than 500 people in the Netherlands have now contracted Salmonella infections linked to smoked salmon, and at least one of these patients has died, reported Dutch health officials Saturday.
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By SeafoodSource staff
11 October, 2012
At Ngoc Sinh Seafoods Trading & Processing Export Enterprise, a
seafood exporter on Vietnam’s southern coast, workers stand on a dirty
floor sorting shrimp one hot September day. There’s trash on the floor,
and flies crawl over baskets of processed shrimp stacked in an unchilled
room in Ca Mau.
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By SeafoodSource staff
11 October, 2012
The government of India is hopeful that Japan will lift its ban on the
import of shrimps from India, said director, Export Inspection Council
of India (EICI), S K Saxena.
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By SeafoodSource staff
10 October, 2012
After calling nearly 250,000 customers last week to tell them the smoked salmon they had purchased was being recalled for potential Salmonella contamination, Costco has released one of the two recalled brands of the fish back onto the market, and has been informed by health officials that no U.S. illnesses are linked to either product.
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By SeafoodSource staff
09 October, 2012
Pregnant women are told to limit how much fish they eat because many fish are tainted by mercury, which may harm a baby’s brain.
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By SeafoodSource staff
03 October, 2012
Smoked salmon tainted with salmonella has sickened hundreds of people in the Netherlands, authorities said, sparking major recalls there and in the U.S.
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By SeafoodSource staff
02 October, 2012
A salmonella outbreak that has left hundreds of people sick in the Netherlands and the U.S. has been traced to smoked salmon, health authorities stated Tuesday.
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By SeafoodSource staff
25 September, 2012
Researchers at Oregon State University have been working to reduce the fat content in fried seafood using fish protein found in surimi.
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By SeafoodSource staff
19 September, 2012
A coalition of consumer groups is recommending the U.S. Department of Agriculture get tuna out of school lunchrooms after tests of canned tuna sold to schools found highly variable levels of mercury, in some cases higher than federal guidelines.
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By SeafoodSource staff
12 September, 2012
A new sensor could quickly and cheaply detect mercury and other toxic metals in rivers, lakes and fish.
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By SeafoodSource staff
24 August, 2012
The braised chunk of fish labeled "Local Halibut Filet" at a posh San Francisco restaurant where a group of food sleuths were eating looked appetizing, but the first two bites were forked into a little plastic container filled with a preservative salt concoction.
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By SeafoodSource staff
03 August, 2012
Seafood caught off the coast of Fukushima Prefecture was traded for the first time at Tokyo’s major Tsukiji fish market on Thursday, following last year’s nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant.
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By SeafoodSource staff
01 August, 2012
The U.K. Food Standards Agency (FSA) announced earlier this week that certain farmed fish, like salmon, destined to be consumed raw in dishes like sushi no longer need to be previously frozen to protect consumers from parasites.
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By Steven Hedlund, SeafoodSource editor
26 July, 2012
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has failed to appropriately warn the public of the dangers associated with consuming seafood high in methylmercury, according to a lawsuit filed on Wednesday.
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By SeafoodSource staff
20 July, 2012
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has begun collecting and testing wild salmon off the coast of British Columbia to determine the status of three salmon diseases: infectious haematopoietic necrosis, infectious pancreatic necrosis and infectious salmon anaemia.
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By SeafoodSource staff
10 July, 2012
The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) is touting the validity of its labeling scheme after independent DNA testing showed that a vast majority of MSC-labeled seafood products are accurately labeled.
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By SeafoodSource staff
20 June, 2012
The Fukushima Prefectural Federation of Fisheries Cooperative Associations has decided to resume sales of some types of seafood caught in seas off the prefecture.
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By SeafoodSource staff
15 June, 2012
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Thursday issued its sternest warning yet against the consumption of mollusks imported from Korea.
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By SeafoodSource staff
15 June, 2012
As the case count continues to rise in the nationwide Salmonella outbreak linked to raw tuna, an inspection by U.S. health officials has revealed unsanitary conditions at the India facility that produced the implicated tuna product.
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By Steven Hedlund, SeafoodSource editor
15 June, 2012
Many U.S. distributors, retailers and foodservice operators have yet to remove Korean mollusks from the marketplace, about a month after the FDA initially warned that they may be a safety risk.
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By SeafoodSource staff
11 June, 2012
The link between sushi made from “tuna scrape” and a recent rash of food-poisoning outbreaks is being skewed by increased mainstream and social media coverage.
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