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Seafood Safety

What Is Good for Consumers Is Good for Business

Malcolm Wittenberg | Posted 01.21.2013 | Home
Read More: Salmonella Peanut Butter, Salmonella Outbreak, Consumer Confidence, Food, Food Safety, Consumers, Salmonella, Food Recall, Pink Slime, Peanut Butter, Seafood Safety, Seafood, Home News
Malcolm Wittenberg

For food producers, the impetus to produce the most food products at the lowest cost looms heavy. However, the motivation to ensure the safety of the products being sold should carry equal importance, if not more.

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Spotlight on (Sea)Food Safety and Transparency

Malcolm Wittenberg | Posted 07.16.2012 | Home
Read More: Transparency, Healthy Eating, Gulf Seafood, Health, Food Technology, Food Safety, Food, Seafood Safety, Seafood, Home News
Malcolm Wittenberg

Food labeling and transparency should be a fundamental, mandated practice employed across every food category, even those with the most complex supply chains.

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A Win for Seafood Safety in Spain

María Eugenia Girón | Posted 10.18.2011 | Green
Read More: Mercury, Spain, Seafood Safety, Oceana, Green News
María Eugenia Girón

As a Spaniard, I'm proud of our seafood tradition. As a mother, I'm worried. There's a downside to our seafood habit: studies have shown that the mercury level in our blood is 10 times the average level in the U.S. and in other countries.

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Six Months, Five Shrimp and One Nasty Mess: Health and Seafood Safety Concerns From BP Spill Still Linger in Gulf Today

Gina Solomon | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Worker Protection, Oil Spill, Fda, Nrdc, Health, Contamination, Gulf Spill, Gulf of Mexico, Natural Resources Defense Council, Seafood Safety, Seafood, Green News
Gina Solomon

As we hear from fishermen that reopened areas are showing signs of oil, NRDC and Gulf Coast groups request documents and ask for explanations from the government. But most information is still not available, and the reopenings continue.

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PHOTOS: 7 Toxic Chemicals In Your Seafood That You Don't Know About

Huffington Post | Barbara Fenig | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Pbdes, Ddt, Chlorinated Dioxins, BP Oil Spill 2010, Fish Safety, Green Living, Gulf Oil Spill, Toxic Chemicals, Arsenic, Toxic Chemicals in Seafood, Melamine, Chemicals in Fish, Fish, Oil, Environment, Our Oceans, Food Safety, Food, Dioxins, BP Oil Spill, Seafood Safety, Slidepollajax, Pcbs, Smarter Ideas, Green News

Since the smell test doesn't really cut it, we decided to investigate the chemicals in seafood that you might not know about. We all know that mercur...

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