Coloring in farmed salmon may get its day in court
Consumers in California will get the chance to suit ov er farm raised salmon being sold without labels warning that chemical coloring has been added.
View ArticleWhich fish to buy
The 2008 guide to which seafood is safe, which is endangered and which may be dangerous .
View ArticleChemical colorings and farmed salmon
Farm-raised salmon are being fed more like a cow than like a fish, at least according to Joe Schwarcz, who is the director of McGill University’s Office for Science and Society. Schwarcz is also a...
View ArticleNo such thing as a wild salmon?
Killing time in the grocery aisles Sunday, I checked to see about the provenance of buffalo mozzarella and cantaloupe, after earlier reading a disturbing report from a California university about...
View ArticleNew techniques to test fish for mercury
Fish lovers in the Pacific Northwest who have curtailed their consumption of seafood because of concerns over mercury contamination may now get help from science in loading their shopping cart. New...
View ArticleKeta can sub for $30-a-pound King salmon
The timing was great. With prices for some wild king salmon soaring higher than $30 a pound, dozens of chefs, fishermen and seafood mongers demonstrated how to put tasty and nutritional wild salmon on...
View ArticleFeds ignore misused organic seafood tag
The feds aren't protecting consumers from imported seafood wrongly called "organic," so two leading food safety advocacy groups have asked the top law enforcement officers in every state to halt this...
View ArticleGAO urges caution on ocean fish farms
The big business "farmers" want permission to build sprawling complexes of floating pens, nets and cages in deep water miles offshore. This is the United States' Exclusive Economic Zone, which covers...
View ArticleSmoked seafod recalled
If you’ve got dried smoked catfish or other smoked seafood from Hope Seafood Supply in your pantry or refrigerator, throw it out, says the Food and Drug Administration. The food safety agency ordered...
View ArticleCaveat emptor fish lovers
Bogus fish. Trashy low-cost cuts sold as high quality gourmet fish in restaurants and markets.
View ArticleCrime lab tools can identify mislabeled and smuggled seafood faster and...
Food scientists are taking a page out of the crime fighting handbook to figure out whether consumers and restaurants are actually getting the seafood they are paying for. A study published in the...
View ArticleThe sockeye are missing from the Pacific Coast’s most abundant salmon...
Only one out of ten of the expected bright-red sockeye salmon showed up at Canada’s Fraser River to spawn this summer. Some marine biologists attribute the deaths to the growing number of commercial...
View ArticleState of the Union, fine. Now let’s talk state of the salmon.
It took President Obama 6,955 words to share his vision for the future of America. He told us, “This is our generation’s Sputnik moment,” and spoke of jobs, heroes, and the “need to celebrate winners...
View ArticleThe sockeye are missing from the Pacific Coast’s most abundant salmon...
Only one out of ten of the expected bright-red sockeye salmon showed up at Canada’s Fraser River to spawn this summer. Some marine biologists attribute the deaths to the growing number of commercial...
View ArticleState of the Union, fine. Now let’s talk state of the salmon.
It took President Obama 6,955 words to share his vision for the future of America. He told us, “This is our generation’s Sputnik moment,” and spoke of jobs, heroes, and the “need to celebrate winners...
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