About Seafood

Tomorrow morning Im running the Ford Island Bridge 10k. Though its not exactly a marathon, I felt the need to prepare a big plate of pasta for lunch. I made it up as I went along and feel pretty silly...

The National Conference on Weights and Measures reports on the preliminary findings of a national investigation into the net weight of frozen seafood. The investigation conducted in 17 states found pa...

Submarine sandwiches are seriously overlooked for dinner in this household. Last night the shrimp poboys recipe I pulled from EatingWell.com came together in 15 minutes and totally hit the spot.I thin...

Seafood fraud and NFI members efforts to eliminate fraud have been brought front and center to the American public this week with the NCWM release of preliminary results of the investigation by states...

When you have a platform like the highest rated morning news program for going on two decades it means you have a large and loyal audience. It also means you have an even greater responsibility to be ...

We have a long and storied past with the New York Times that grew out of an article penned by Marian Burros that was, in the end, colossally off base and required not just a correction but a public ad...

More than once I have bemoaned the fact that one media outlet or another did a story on seafood and did not reach out to use NFI as a resource. I maintain its rather difficult to write a story about t...

Fish is one of my favorite foods. Cheese is another one of my favorite foods. And apparently there is an ugly wives tale that never the two shall meet.I looked into this a bit, not that there are any ...

Time Magazine made a mistake when it put tuna on its Time.com top ten list of dangerous foods. Plain and simple it made a mistake. We pointed that out to editors and mangers and in two rounds of exten...

FDA has posted a close-out letter to Registry Steaks and Seafood Ltd, an Illinois firm issued a Warning Letter for frozen shrimp which included the weight of the ice glaze and/or marinade ice glaze as...

Last night for the first time, possibly ever, Lloyd did not eat the fish I made for dinner.No, he hadnt already eaten.He wasnt feeling under the weather.In fact he was especially ravenous, and hurried...

Unless you have a direct line to FDAs Division of Compliance Policy it is often difficult to understand how the agency interprets the Federal Food Drug and Cosmetic Act. This is the law that defines w...

Would it be a bridge too far to say trumped-up imported seafood scare stories are pass? I mean really, how many times can you hear an anchor say something is fishy and then toss to a reporter who cant...

FDA issued a Warning Letterto Roxy Trading, Inc., a food importer, for re-importing a product that had been previously refused entry by FDA for containing a non-permitted color additive. During a foll...

My sister, Carlie, and her friend, Connie, left me late Monday night to return to their lives in Texas. Before we said goodbye (yes, I did cry) they prepared a delicious last supper.Connies family is ...