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Trade & Commerce Press Release
Shrimp Leads Gains In Seafood Consumption On Top 10 List
October 29, 2015 – Washington, DC – For the second year in a row, Americans are eating more seafood. Health conscious consumers appear to be helping reverse a trend that saw seafood consu...
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Consumer Protection Blog
Newsweek Botches Advice to Parents
A recent article from Newsweek by Melania Juntti [11 Foods You Should Never Feed Your Kids] recklessly includes canned tuna among foods parents should not feed their children. This is not only wron...
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Uncategorized Blog
The Environmental Working Group
The Environmental Working Group (EWG), a Washington-based environmental lobbying organization, claims its mission is “to see that Americans get straight facts, unfiltered and unspun.” But EWG does...
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Health Blog
New York Times Falls Victim To Its Own Warning
Over at the New York Times, Jim Windolf astutely notes that the American media has a corrosive habit of fomenting hysteria over nonexistent health threats, and that we’d probably be better off tunin...
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Consumer Protection Blog
More Dangerous Misinformation from Consumer Reports
More than a year after the Food and Drug Administration definitively called out Consumer Reports for its feckless and dangerous misinformation on tuna, the group continues to peddle the same pseudo-sc...
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Consumer Protection Blog
Time For An Update; Today.com Reports Yesterday’s Science
September 1, 2015 Madelyn Fernstrom Health & Nutrition Editor Today.com Dear Ms. Fernstrom, Today.com’s recent article Eating fish 2-3 times a week is recommended: What about ever...
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Consumer Protection Blog
Consumer Reports’ Contradications
If you’re a Consumer Reports reader, you’re hearing this week that shrimp is a superfood – high in protein, low in fat and calories, and a great source of vitamins and valuable minerals. Ahh, ...
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Consumer Protection Blog
Greenpeace Pushes Annual Fundraising Tool
Greenpeace is touting the latest in its long line of opaque, subjective, and hopelessly flawed “reports” on retail seafood. This year’s model may have lost the juvenile aesthetic and top hat don...
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Consumer Protection Blog
More of the Same from Safe Catch
You may have recently seen reporting about something called Safe Catch, it’s promoting a seafood product that is actually a solution… in search of a problem. News about “a new tuna manufacturer ...
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The National Fisheries Institute and our members work on a variety of topics to ensure the seafood community continues to provide safe, healthy, and sustainable seafood products. Seafood is one...