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foxglovepress Forum-Blogger© Original500© Member  NON-PC!!
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They just announced that we need to start asking WHERE our seafood comes from both in grocery stores, and restaurants. Wal Mart for one, imports their shrimp from Thailand. Our "food and Drug" administration is telling us seafood from other countries is not safe! Okay.........why are we JUST NOW hearing this?
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Marie5656 Forum-Blogger© Original500© Member  Just hanging out
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Wow....I have not heard that one. I will look around to see if I can find an article to put here.
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I think they should be more specific in which countries to avoid. I've had lobster from the east coast of Canada that was simply wonderful!
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foxglovepress Forum-Blogger© Original500© Member NON-PC!!
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Luvdawgs wrote: I think they should be more specific in which countries to avoid. I've had lobster from the east coast of Canada that was simply wonderful! Lobster is simply wonderful PERIOD!  I heard this while I was sloshing about in the kitchen getting coffee, and by the time I really started to pay attention, it was too late for details. They also said either 60% of all out of country seafood is bad, or 60% of our seafood is FROM out of country! Marie, maybe you could find out for us? It's hard to believe that much would be shipped into our country, we have a lot of seafood here in the US!
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Cars Original500© Member  Love Living Large
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After reading this, I went to check the "two" 1 lb bags of "Farm Raised" cooked, & fresh frozen Shrimp, peeled & deveined, from the World Class Trading Co. that I just bought Friday at our local Supermarket here in New England. Printed in small characters on the back of bag: "Product from Thailand"! I should have known, they really can't raise Shrimp on a Farm!!!  Anyway, when you come down to look at it, over the past years many items here in good ol USA are from foreigh countries! Many Foods/Fruits are from South Africa, Australia, Chili, Brazil, China, Belgium, Peru, Philippines to name a few. And the scary part is, it has been said that only a "minuscule percentage" of the shipments from these countries into the USA are inspected by US FDA!!!
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Marie5656 Forum-Blogger© Original500© Member Just hanging out
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I am going to gto the FDA website, and see what they say. Just getting a chance to do that now. Did not see anything on CNN.com
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Marie5656 Forum-Blogger© Original500© Member Just hanging out
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I found a couple articles. I was having trouble copying and pasting the articles, so I am just posting links for now. I will try again from home. http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-04-16-imported-food_N.htm http://diettracker.blogspot.com/2007/05/fda-warning-do-not-eat-imported-fish.html
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The seafood industry has been global for years. I applaud those who buy local but it isn't easy.
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foxglovepress Forum-Blogger© Original500© Member NON-PC!!
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I'll see if I can find the information that was on the news about imported fish. For now, take a look at this.............. Where Does Your Food Come From? Posted by [url=javascript:loadAuthor('couricandco', 500803, 'Nancy_Cordes')]Nancy Cordes[/url]|  3 (CBS/John Filo) Nancy Cordes is the Transportation and Consumer Safety Correspondent for CBS News.Walking through the supermarket shouldn't have to feel like a game of Clue. But that's just the way a lot of shoppers feel these days in the wake of some food scares from China. They'd like to know more about where that plum or strawberry or slab of beef comes from, but there's no way to tell. Seafood is the only food product currently required by law to display a label declaring its country of origin. Sometimes states and countries that are proud of their produce will place stickers on fruits and vegetables -- "Grown in Washington," "Product of Chile" -- but they don't have to. So even shoppers with great intentions can get stumped. Here are some tips from the Center for Food Safety, the USDA and Wegmans grocery stores on how to discern where the food in the produce aisle is from. -- If it's winter, those berries are probably NOT grown in the US. They were grown south of the Equator, most likely in Chile. -- Almost all greens not locally grown are from California. Few come from overseas. -- Bananas are grown in Central or South America -- mostly Costa Rica and Ecuador. -- Only 4 percent of all imported fruit comes from China and less tha 2.5% of imported vegetables. Nearly two thirds of our imported vegetables come from Mexico. -- Pennsylvania is the state of the mushroom. -- Produce that has been washed, chopped and bagged or packaged isn't necessarily safer. It's gone through an extra processing stage, which mean one additional step where it could have been exposed to contamination. -- Apples not grown in the US are most likely grown in Chile or New Zealand. -- If your orange does not have a sticker, it could be from Florida, it could be from South Africa or it might be from Brazil. Still have questions about a particular produce item? Ask to see the store's produce manager. He or she should know where each type of fruit or vegetable was shipped in from -- because even if there's no label, the origin was probably stamped on the boxes. Happy shopping!
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AussiePam Original500© Member  Wild Child
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Exactly the same problem here in Australia. Best always to buy fresh, preferably from the day's haul at the local fish market. Or if you buy frozen, check the packet. Globalisation, plus trade realities, plus price, plus out of season demand means that products from a lot of different countries appear on our shelves. I understand that in Australia all imports have met basic health inspection standards, and must be properly labelled for content... but still.... Then, there's the other question. With food, even home grown, or the fish you catch yourself - how safe it that? What does your local friendly farmer really do to make his crop grow? What are the local scientists doing to 'increase' homegrown production? What pollution was in that bit of sea where you hooked the flathead you tossed on the barbie? Should we stop eating altogether, Marie?
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UsedToRide Original500© Member  ^^^That is LOVE!!^^^
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AussiePam wrote: With food, even home grown, or the fish you catch yourself - how safe it that? Good point, that. Plenty of fish caught in the Great Lakes should not be consumed in large quantities and some not at all. And I love my ice fishing for perch!! 
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foxglovepress Forum-Blogger© Original500© Member NON-PC!!
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Marie5656 wrote: Wow....I have not heard that one. I will look around to see if I can find an article to put here. Marie....it was on ABC Morning News. Try ABC News: Alert: Is the fish you eat safe? It won't let me copy and paste it. Find it in Google..........
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Marie5656 Forum-Blogger© Original500© Member Just hanging out
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UsedToRide wrote: Good point, that. Plenty of fish caught in the Great Lakes should not be consumed in large quantities and some not at all. And I love my ice fishing for perch!! We have the same issue here, on Lake Ontario. High levels of Mercury and other crud make the fish pretty much totally unsafe. Eating very small quantities, as with UTR.
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Marie5656 Forum-Blogger© Original500© Member Just hanging out
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foxglovepress wrote: Marie5656 wrote:Wow....I have not heard that one. I will look around to see if I can find an article to put here. Foxglove, here is a link to the article.
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Britt Forum-Blogger© Original500© Member  Learning Contentment
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Cars wrote: Anyway, when you come down to look at it, over the past years many items here in good ol USA are from foreigh countries! Many Foods/Fruits are from South Africa, Australia, Chili, Brazil, China, Belgium, Peru, Philippines to name a few. And the scary part is, it has been said that only a "minuscule percentage" of the shipments from these countries into the USA are inspected by US FDA!!! Yes, and I have had bad fish harvested in the good ol' US of A.
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