• Health Press Release

    MEDIA ALERT: Consumer Reports does disservice to pregnant women with absurd tuna guidance

    Washington, DC August 20, 2014 Consumer Reports is set to publish a recommendation that pregnant women avoid all canned tuna, advice that flies in the face of more than a decade of independent, peer...

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    grouper w/ peach-mango salsa

    Peach. Mango. Salsa. Three of my favorite summer foods.My family and I snuck in one last trip to the beach this weekend. Nestled along the North Carolina coast, Beaufort is a quaint little fishing tow...

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    lemon-dill salmon cakes

    Left-over salmon makes a perfect protein-rich addition to salad, pasta or even mixed with avocado or light mayo for a salmon-salad sandwich. But, I was craving comfort food lunch earlier this week.Ins...

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    Rodale News editors expected to live to 120 and be capable of human flight?

    Emily Main and Leah Zerbe have done it again. You know them, the activists writing for Rodale News who have a long history of botching facts, skewing reports, and throwing the rules of journalism out ...

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    MEDIA ALERT: Reporting On Ocean Mercury Level Study

    Washington, DC August 7, 2014 Reporters, producers and editors working on stories about newly-released research into the amount of mercury found in the oceans need to be careful and precise about wha...

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    Brown Rice Seafood Risotto

    My family and I spent last week in a small beach town in South Carolina called Edisto Island. Days were filled with splashing, watching dolphins and day-tripping in Charleston. The evenings, of course...

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    Tinfoil Hat Brigade Wants To Be A Resource For Reporters

    Its been two weeks since the FDA came out with its new draft guidance for pregnant women on eating seafood and theres been a flood of reporting about it: Wall Street Journal FDA to Increase Calls for...

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    Consumer Reports Gears Up For Another Tuna Tale

    June 25, 2014 Marion Wilson-Spencer Product Analyst Consumer Reports 101 Truman Avenue, Yonkers,NY - 10703-1057 Via Email Dear Ms. Wilson-Spencer, Thank you for reaching out to the National Fisheries ...

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    tilapia w/ black bean-corn relish

    For some reason, I was craving black beans, corn and avocado this weekend.And at the supermarket on Saturday, I noticed tilapia was on sale. With fish in hand, I picked up the ingredients for the sals...

  • Press Release

    Statement on the 2014 State Departments Trafficking In Persons (TIP) report

    WASHINGTON, DC June 20, 2014 Unfair and illegal labor practices are abhorrent and NFI members distinguish themselves through their commitment and actions to eradicate them. Most NFI members have requ...

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    mahi with pineapple salsa

    The USDA MyPlate recommends that we fill half our plate with fruits and vegetables, a quarter with lean protein and a quarter with whole grains or starchy vegetables. When your protein is fish, it's s...

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    Senator McCaskill to Dr. Oz: The scientific community is almost monolithically against you

    Yesterday Dr. Mehmet Oz testified before a Senate committee about the accuracy of the medical advice he gives on his show. Readers of this blog would be shocked, SHOCKED to find that by his own admiss...

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    Health Advice and Journalistic Responsibility

    After a few days of blog and twitter banter that saw a hyper-defensive Michael Hawthorne refusing to acknowledge and or correct his now comically slanted reporting, on the FDA's new advice to pregnan...

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    Has Trib reporter Hawthorne Joined the Ranks of Jenny McCarthy?

    This week the FDA and EPA announced they had evaluated 110 published, peer-reviewed studies and concluded that pregnant women need to eat 4 times as much seafood as they currently do in order to reali...