• Health Blog

    Speedy seafood meals

    The last couple days have been busy beyond belief. So this will be a speedy blog, featuring two speedy seafood meals. For lunch yesterday I concocted a tuna noodle stir-fry by sauting canned tuna, fr...

  • Health Blog

    Family style fish

    We had a busy Saturday full of errands and entertaining, and a lazy Sunday full of laundry and lounging. I was happy that on Saturday we managed to fit in a trip to Tamashiros fish market for more Ah...

  • Health Blog

    Fish Fridays

    Today is the third Friday of Lent, the 40-day (not including Sundays) period of time between Ash Wednesday and Easter Sunday. Lent is steeped in dietary traditions. Historically, people fasted for 40...

  • Uncategorized Blog

    Decimal Point Or Deception?

    A Newsweek blogger has taken exception with my math on a recent challenge we issued to KPIX TV. And you know what? She was right. I botched my conversion of micrograms per deciliter vs. micrograms per...

  • Consumer Protection News Item

    GAO Issues Report on Seafood Fraud

    The Government Accountability Office (GAO) issues report on the governments role in reducing and eliminating seafood fraud. The report describes (1) the actions key federal agencies take to help detec...

  • Uncategorized Blog

    Kwon And Hightower Team Up For More Mercury Misinformation (Part III)

    From a butcher you ask for meat. From a fishmonger you ask for seafood. From a reporter you ask for facts... is that too much to ask? Our latest letter: March 12, 2009 Dan Rosenheim News Director ...

  • Uncategorized Blog

    Pixing On Tuna

    Yesterday a California appeals court ruled that the mercury found in canned tuna doesn't reach the standard for concern as defined by proposition 65 and therefore there is no need for warning signs on...

  • Health Blog

    Shrimp and sports nutrition

    Shrimp and grits casserole was a hit. In fact, it's all gone. Lloyd and I both ate it for dinner last night (with lima beans and spinach salad)... ...and breakfast this morning (with baked potat...

  • Uncategorized Blog

    Kwon And Hightower Team Up For More Mercury Misinformation (Part II)

    The folks at KPIX have yet to respond to my missive from last week. So, I sent them another email just to make sure there isn't a technical problem that I don't know about. A technical snafu would be ...

  • Health Press Release

    Court Rejects Warnings on Canned Tuna

    March 11, 2009 Washington, DC For the second time in three years, a California court has refused to require mercury warnings in conjunction with the sale of canned tuna. The state attorney general's ...

  • Health Blog

    Blog from our lanai

    It's a beautiful day today (made even more beautiful in contrast to yesterday's torrential downpour) so I'm sitting outside on our lanai as I write this blog. You'll notice a glass of water by...

  • Uncategorized Blog

    Reporting Thats A Recipe For Disaster

    Last week KTLA-TV produced a report on mercury in seafood that did include statements from NFI but still missed the mark on a number of journalistic issues, including the title which was rife with exa...

  • Health Blog

    No fun in the sun

    It's been rainy and windy for about a week now on Oahu, so there was no fun in the sun over the weekend. But there was still fun. Yesterday after a girls' trip to the brand new Target (I'm fully stoc...

  • Uncategorized Blog

    AP: Interested Parties May Be Targeting Tuna

    The Associated Press' Nairobi, Kenya Bureau Chief has gotten back to us regarding the problems we highlighted in its reporting on the U.N.'s gathering of environmental ministers in Kenya. It would app...

  • Health Blog

    A bit of a bummer

    Yesterday I ate fish twice. That is more than almost 80 percent of Americans eat in an entire week. And the effects are starting to show. A new study published in the Journal of Nutrition reveals tha...