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 News Item (Source/Date Posted on Source)

Waitrose recalls two Scottish salmon products (Food Standards Agency/ 8/21)

Consumers Warned to Avoid Eating Raw Oysters from Southern Tip of Hood Canal in Washington State (FDA/ 8/10)

Salmonella detected in shark cartilage capsules from the United States (Food Standards Agency/ 8/09)

FDA Detains Imports of Farm-Raised Chinese Seafood (FDA/ 6/28)

BOTULISM, SEAFOOD - CANADA (QUEBEC): RECALL (ProMED Mail/6/09)

Scotch Smoked Salmon Company recalls smoked salmon (Food Standards Agency/ 5/25)

FDA Warning on Mislabeled Monkfish (FDA/ 5/24)

Albertson’s LLC Introduces PakSense Temperature Monitoring Labels On Produce, Fresh Meat and Seafood Shipments (Meat and Poultry Online/ 5/24)

Fish meant for humans fed tainted food (CNN Health/ 5/09)

OPISTHORCHIASIS - RUSSIA (NOVOSIBIRSK) (ProMED Mail/ 5/06)

Edinburgh sewage discharge update (Food Standards Agency/ 4/24)

More nutritious, less toxic (EurekAlert!/Dartmouth College/ 4/23)

What's in the water? Estrogenic activity documented in fish caught in Pittsburgh's rivers. (EurekAlert!/University of Pittsburgh/ 4/17)

Flame Retardants Harm Mammals Eating Fish (Newswise/ 4/13)

Fish pollutants' link to diabetes (BBC News/ 4/12)

A new test to screen fish for 25 drug residues at the same time pdf file (American Chemical Society PressPac/ 4/11)

Seafood Poisoning Rises With Warming (Los Angeles Times/ 4/01)

Group says COOL costs out of whack (MeatNews.com/ 3/27)

BOTULISM, SMOKED UNEVISCERATED FISH - USA (NEW YORK): RECALL (ProMED Mail/ 3/26)

Thames 'clean enough' for salmon (BBC News/ 3/26)

Oyster Harvesting Areas in Southwest Louisiana Closed (Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals/ 3/25)

PARALYTIC SHELLFISH POISONING - SOUTH AFRICA (WESTERN CAPE): RED TIDE (ProMED Mail/ 3/25)

Shellfish safety experts meet in New Zealand (New Zealand Food Safety Authority/ 3/19)

Waitrose withdraws shellfish products (U.K./ Food Standards Agency/ 3/16)

State Officials to Host Public Meeting on Horsetooth Reservoir Fish Consumption Advisory (Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment/ 3/14)

FOODBORNE ILLNESS, FISH - CHINA (GUANGDONG) (02): TETRODOTOXIN (ProMED Mail/ 3/12)

FOODBORNE ILLNESS, FISH - CHINA (GUANGDONG): CIGUATERA SUSPECTED(ProMED Mail/ 3/11)

Mercury contamination of fish warrants worldwide public warning (EurekAlert!/ 3/08)

New report: Explosive growth changes salmon industry (EurekAlert!/ 3/07)

Demand for fish leads to barn renovations (Purdue University/ 3/05)

FDA Investigating Norovirus Outbreak Linked to Oysters (FDA/ 3/02)

Global warming: enough to make you sick (L.A. Times/ 2/25)

Non-GMO solution to seafood allergies (EurekAlert! /2/25)

The Vermont Department of Health recommends that people limit their consumption of some fish caught in Vermont waters (Vermont Department of Health / 2/23)

FDA Investigating Norovirus Outbreak Linked to Oysters (FDA / 12/12)

GASTROENTERITIS, OYSTERS - CHINA (HONG KONG) (ProMed Mail / 10/21)

FDA's Statement on "Seafood Choices" Report by the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies (FDA / 10/18)

Vibrio parahaemolyticus Infections Associated with Consumption of Raw Shellfish --- Three States, 2006 (CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report / 8/8)

Consumers advised to avoid raw oysters from the Pacific Northwest (ProMed Mail / 8/1)

Action already taken on oyster imports (New Zealand Food Safety Authority / 7/14)

Korean oysters consumed raw may cause illness (New Zealand Food Safety Authority / 7/6)

Over-use of antibiotics in fish-for-food industry encourages bacterial resistance and disease (Eurek Alert / 6/20)

FDA/EPA Advisory on Seafood Consumption Still Current (FDA / 6/6)

Tuna firms don't have to warn of mercury: judge (Reuters Health / 5/15)

Fish product surveys published (UK Food Standards Agency / 5/4)

Red Tide Fears Broaden Shellfishing Ban (LA Times from AP / 5/3)

Long term classification of shellfish harvesting areas (UK Food Standards Agency / 4/26)

Canada Adopts Method to Extract Noroviruses from Oysters (USDA ARS / 3/24)

US: New test brings low-mercury fish to market (Just-Food.com / 3/3)

WHO publishes risk assessment of Vibrio vulnificus in oysters (pdf file) (WHO / 2/23)

UK survey finds pollutant levels in most fish continue to fall (FoodProductionDaily.com / 2/23)

Surveys show pollutant levels in fish falling (UK Food Standards Agency / 2/17)

VIETNAM: Seafood hygiene standards will affect food export (JustFood.com / 1/30)

New Test Means Safe Oysters (NewsWise.com / 1/21)

Milk and salmon contamination feature in food safety alerts (FoodProductionDaily.com / 1/19)

Kansas Issues New Fish Consumption Advisories. Updated Guidelines include Mercury, PCBs, Perchlorate (Kansas Dept. of Health and Environment / 1/9)

Gulf States, Feds Report on Seafood (FDA / 12/9)

Government Should Warn About Mercury in Fish, Says CSPI (Center for Science in the Public Interest / 12/6)

An elderly woman dies after eating red tide-contaminated oysters in El Salvador (ProMed Mail / 12/5)