Tuesday, May 06, 2008
This is no fish story
When you really think about it, our food supply is a bit shaky, to say the least...
The A.P.'s Bill Lambrecht writes at STLtoday.com:
"In March, inspectors checking Chinese seafood arriving at U.S. ports made some unsettling discoveries: fish infected with salmonella in Baltimore and Seattle, and shrimp with banned veterinary drugs in Florida.
Meanwhile, a shipment intercepted in Los Angeles on March 19 and labeled 'channel catfish' wasn't catfish at all, though records don't say what it was.
'A lot of those products coming in from overseas, you have no clue as to what is in them,' said Paul Hitchens, an aquaculture specialist in Southern Illinois, where cut-rate Chinese catfish are threatening the livelihood of fish farmers."
