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Showing Original Post only (View all)Asian Seafood Raised On Pig Feces Approved For U.S. Consumers [View all]
Bloomberg Markets Magazine
By Nguyen Dieu Tu Uyen and William Bi
Oct 10, 2012 11:00 PM CT
At Ngoc Sinh Seafoods Trading & Processing Export Enterprise, a seafood exporter on Vietnams southern coast, workers stand on a dirty floor sorting shrimp one hot September day. Theres trash on the floor, and flies crawl over baskets of processed shrimp stacked in an unchilled room in Ca Mau.
Elsewhere in Ca Mau, Nguyen Van Hoang packs shrimp headed for the U.S. in dirty plastic tubs. He covers them in ice made with tap water that the Vietnamese Health Ministry says should be boiled before drinking because of the risk of contamination with bacteria. Vietnam ships 100 million pounds of shrimp a year to the U.S. Thats almost 8 percent of the shrimp Americans eat.
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At Chen Qiangs tilapia farm in Yangjiang city in Chinas Guangdong province, which borders Hong Kong, Chen feeds fish partly with feces from hundreds of pigs and geese. That practice is dangerous for American consumers, says Michael Doyle, director of the University of Georgias Center for Food Safety.
The manure the Chinese use to feed fish is frequently contaminated with microbes like salmonella, says Doyle, who has studied foodborne diseases in China.
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By Nguyen Dieu Tu Uyen and William Bi
Oct 10, 2012 11:00 PM CT
At Ngoc Sinh Seafoods Trading & Processing Export Enterprise, a seafood exporter on Vietnams southern coast, workers stand on a dirty floor sorting shrimp one hot September day. Theres trash on the floor, and flies crawl over baskets of processed shrimp stacked in an unchilled room in Ca Mau.
Elsewhere in Ca Mau, Nguyen Van Hoang packs shrimp headed for the U.S. in dirty plastic tubs. He covers them in ice made with tap water that the Vietnamese Health Ministry says should be boiled before drinking because of the risk of contamination with bacteria. Vietnam ships 100 million pounds of shrimp a year to the U.S. Thats almost 8 percent of the shrimp Americans eat.
*snip*
At Chen Qiangs tilapia farm in Yangjiang city in Chinas Guangdong province, which borders Hong Kong, Chen feeds fish partly with feces from hundreds of pigs and geese. That practice is dangerous for American consumers, says Michael Doyle, director of the University of Georgias Center for Food Safety.
The manure the Chinese use to feed fish is frequently contaminated with microbes like salmonella, says Doyle, who has studied foodborne diseases in China.
MORE
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This is from Vietnam not Japan and Sushi, Sashimi is Japanese, not Vietnamese.
AsahinaKimi
Oct 2012
#66
It seems that protesting globalism is okay as long as it isn't Americans doing it.
Zalatix
Oct 2012
#46
Or buy certified American caught and processed seafood. Eating out just got harder though.
nolabear
Oct 2012
#15
Nah, that's not legal anymore. But you can eat cows that are fed "poultry litter" containing cow,
LeftyMom
Oct 2012
#40
Little known fact: The main sushi distributor in the US is owned by the Moonies.
LeftyMom
Oct 2012
#42