Tag: fish/shellfish
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FDA Changes Common Name for Crabmeat
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced a change to the common name “brown king crabmeat,” derived from Lithodes aequispinus. Effective May 3, 2018, the common and usual name for crabmeat previously described as “brown king crabmeat” has been changed to “golden king crabmeat.” The compliance date for the changes is January 1, 2020.
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FDA Delays Raw Oyster Ban Pending Further Study
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced its intention to delay a 2011 ban on raw oysters harvested from the Gulf of Mexico during warm weather months. FDA heard from “Gulf Coast oyster harvesters, state officials, and elected representatives from across the region about the feasibility of implementing post-harvest processing or other equivalent controls”…
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Gulf States Fight FDA Raw Oyster Ban
U.S. Senators Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) and Mary Landrieu (D-La.) have introduced legislation seeking to block a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) proposal that would prohibit the distribution of raw oysters from the Gulf of Mexico during warm-weather months. “Specifically, the legislation, which was co-sponsored by Senator David Vitter (R-La.), would prevent [FDA] from using funds…
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CSPI Annual Report Claims Seafood Causes More Cases of Illness Per Bite
The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) has issued its annual Outbreak Alert! report, which claims that “a pound of fish and shellfish is 29 times more likely to cause illness than the safest food category, a pound of dairy foods.” According to CSPI, their database has tracked 1,140 foodborne illness outbreaks linked…