More reports of salmonella poisoning, after people ate previously frozen ahi bought from local grocery stores, prompt the State Health Department and US Food and Drug Administration to launch an investigation to trace the origin of the infected fish.
Baskets of fish lying on the ground, each with no ice and without fresh ice water.
The seas are littered with fishing boats because their main source of money comes from exporting frozen tuna to places around the world, including Hawaii.
“It’s an imported product and we are finding that from Indonesia Malaysia from Philippines,” Envirowatch Carroll Cox said.
Health officials traced 11 cases of salmonella poisoning to Choyce Products, who voluntarily recalled close to 55-hundred pounds of yellow fin ahi a week ago.
“They need to go to the larger grocery chains and remove that product or have those grocery chains show that in fact this product is safe,” Cox said.
“In this case the alarm is greater because this is Paratyphi b associated with fecal matter,” Cox said.
Health officials warn this type of contamination comes from the feces of chickens, cattle, pigs and contaminated water…more…
February 16, 2008
US-HI-KHON News-Salmonella Poisoning Prompts FDA Investigation
More reports of salmonella poisoning, after people ate previously frozen ahi bought from local grocery stores, prompt the State Health Department and US Food and Drug Administration to launch an investigation to trace the origin of the infected fish.
Baskets of fish lying on the ground, each with no ice and without fresh ice water.
The seas are littered with fishing boats because their main source of money comes from exporting frozen tuna to places around the world, including Hawaii.
“It’s an imported product and we are finding that from Indonesia Malaysia from Philippines,” Envirowatch Carroll Cox said.
Health officials traced 11 cases of salmonella poisoning to Choyce Products, who voluntarily recalled close to 55-hundred pounds of yellow fin ahi a week ago.
“They need to go to the larger grocery chains and remove that product or have those grocery chains show that in fact this product is safe,” Cox said.
“In this case the alarm is greater because this is Paratyphi b associated with fecal matter,” Cox said.
Health officials warn this type of contamination comes from the feces of chickens, cattle, pigs and contaminated water…more…
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