Ralph and all,
Just two cents worth of my opinion. If you see the levels of APC (sometimes not
the best indication of fish spoilage) for the ones that "did not pass", they
were at or near 7-8 logs. This says that these products were just spoiled
(maybe). Moreover, the consumer will not buy (or will return) spoiled fish (or
won't him/her?). Give consumers some credit, if the newsperson can smell it,
then fish buyers can certainly smell it!!!!!!
Juan L. Silva
Ralph Boragine wrote:
> Jose, Ken, David
>
> I think a continuing problems here is that both the National Fisheries
> Institute and the Food Marketing Institute should have answered the question
> simply "some retailers are good, others are not - did you check the
> chicken?"
> Ralph
> Ralph Boragine
> Rhode Island Seafood Council
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-seafood@ucdavis.edu [mailto:owner-seafood@ucdavis.edu]On
> Behalf Of Dr. Jose P. Peralta
> Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 8:55 PM
> To: seafood@ucdavis.edu
> Subject: Re: Good Morning America 11/2 fresh seafood report
>
> Dear folks,
>
> The news article failed to report, as in a scientific article; the
> methods and procedures used in the assessment of the fresh fish. Ergo,
> he could have collected all his samples, dump them in the ice box with
> ice, and waited until he collected his last samples, before giving it to
> the lab for analysis; which could take days. The results to the first
> samples are already bias in this regard. Well, as I have said, could
> have
>
> Is 10 million bacteria per gram or more the unacceptable quality
> limit for fish? Is this a US Standard?
>
> " .... The Food and Drug Administration oversees seafood quality at
> the wholesale level, where inspectors judge fish quality by the way it
> looks, feels and most of all, smells. For beef and poultry,
> the government requires microbiological testing, but there is no such
> requirement for fish."
>
> Is the statement correct that FDA does not require bug counts for fresh
> fish??
>
> Jose
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