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FDA concerned about safety of Chinese fish imports

I'm usually glad to peruse tomorrow's New York Times headlines when it comes to food as I did last night. I say usually because last night the news I learned was rather disturbing. The FDA has issued an alert about the safety of five types of farm-raised seafood imported from China. It seems that multiple tests showed contamination from carcinogens and antibiotics.

The five types of seafood in question are shrimp, catfish, eel, basa (a type of catfish) and dace (Chinese mud carp). These fish will have to be tested before they can be sold in the U.S. The FDA noted that there's no immediate health threat, but that prolonged exposure could cause health problems. Somehow that doesn't make me feel very safe, probably because I've consumed more than a few cans of canned dace with black bean sauce in my day. And the ban may not be such good news for fish eaters in general, either. Chinese seafood accounts for 21 percent of all seafood imports. Shrimp lovers may be hit especially hard since it's the number one seafood imported from China.

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Filed Under: Health & Medical, Ingredients
Tags: antibiotics, asia, basa, carcinogens, catfish, Chinese mud carp, ChineseMudCarp, eel, FDA, fish, food safety, FoodSafety, shellfish, shrimp

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Rebecca

6-29-2007 @2:40PM Rebecca said... That is scary and reminds me of the pet food recall and the melamine used in Chinese pet food factories.

I am helping MoovetoAmerican.org promote US Beef. Yesterday we floated our Bovine Barge, a barge with 30 American cows on board, to Ellis Island as a demonstration of our support for American Beef and A&W restaurants which serves only US Beef. I thought you might be interested in seeing the video here:

http://moovetoamerican.org/index.html
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Lala

6-30-2007 @3:10AM Lala said... Aw, flub, and I really love that particular brand of dace in your pict too. Canned garlic black bean dace on a bed of hot white rice. Shoot.
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