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Press Release
Familiar Fins make Annual Top Ten List
Washington, DC September 7, 2010 Americans ate 15.8 pounds of seafood per capita in 2009, down slightly from 16 pounds in 2008 and just ten varieties made up more than 88 percent of that consumption. ...
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Sustainability Blog
AOL Columnist Hooked On Half Truths
If you stumbled upon Sally Deneen's AOL column published under the banner Green Police, there are a number of things you should keep in mind.
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Health Blog
Our favorite neighborhood sushi spot, Tokoname, has a nightly power hour at 9 featuring half off nigiri.I've wanted to go for a while, but its usually hard to keep my appetite at bay so late.Yesterday...
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Health Blog
A Seal of Disapproval for Good Housekeeping (Part II)
So, its been a few days since we blogged about Good Housekeepings write-up on tuna and we thought perhaps it was time to reach out directly to the folks who affix that well known seal to products we u...
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Consumer Protection News Item
Charges Filed for Honey Import Fraud
The Department of Justice announced the indictment of eleven individuals and six corporations for allegedly participating in an international conspiracy to illegally import honey from China that was m...
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Health Blog
Today Gets It Wrong on Fish and Mercury Again
In the last five months, we've had quite a few reasons to be disappointed with Today Show anchors, reporters and producers over errors theyve made about fish consumption. We first tangled with Today d...
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Health Blog
Yesterday I went to the grocery store and among the whopping six items on my list -- food lasts a lot longer around here minus the Marine -- was fresh fish.I was in the mood to try something different...
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Consumer Protection News Item
FDA announces an order to debar seafood importer, Su Van Ho, for a period of 15 years from importing or offering to import food into the United States. In 2009, Mr. Ho pled guilty to 3 charges of viol...
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Health Blog
I planted another pot of herbs this week, and got straight to work eating them.For lunch I made a Tex-Mex tuna melt the tuna is mixed with diced avocado and homegrown chili pepper and topped with che...
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Consumer Protection Blog
Science to Combat Fraud (Part II)
For any company sourcing ingredients based on protein content, the melamine contamination of pet food in 2007 certainly raised concerns with the test methodologies for total protein which are based on...
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Health Blog
Great Schools Gets an “F” on Tuna and Mercury
We recently came across another of those lists that the media is so famous for. In this case, the culprit was a Web site called Great Schools and its five foods for school children to avoid. Included ...
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Consumer Protection News Item
Seafood Importer Pleads Guilty to Illegal Importation of Toothfish
The Department of Justice and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced thatPescanovaUSA, a Coral Gables-based seafood company, pled guilty today to charges related to the attem...
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Sustainability Blog
Yesterday at Greenpeace UK, posted an item on tuna and sustainability and not surprisingly it fails to tell the whole story.There is little argument over the fact that stocks of theiconic Bluefin tuna...
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Blog
AOL Falls Victim To Hype And Hysteria
AOLs coverage of the Gulf from a food safety perspective has been thorough and accurate. But this article unfortunately plays right into the hyperbole and hysteria created by Food & Water Watch with l...
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Health Blog
glazed salmon with broccoli rice
I love oven-crisped onions, so this easy salmon recipe caught my eye.I followed it pretty closely, except I used a little less sugar, brown rice instead of white, and yellow onions instead of red.Simp...