tilapfilet@aol.com escribió: >
De: tilapfilet@aol.com
Fecha: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 11:39:20 EST
Asunto: Re: [FarmavetID] Fwd: Re: CO gas treatment of
Tuna loins and Tilapia fillets
Dr. Lainer,
The fact is CO and TS is legal and being promoted on a
massive scale in both Frozen Tuna steaks and frozen
tilapia fillets. If you have any doubts just go into
the markets and look, Wallmart is carrying the
product. Also look on FDA web site: Import Bulletin
#16B-95 May 1999., FDA issued an Import Bulletin
which included instructions that tuna treated with
tasteless smoke or CO should be: "labeled as
processed foods that have been treated with carbon
monoxide or tasteless smoke not misrepresented as
fresh frozen seafood by their label and near normal
in flesh color."
My understanding is that the FDA cannot prove CO/TS is
not GRAS therefore they have no reason to consider CO
a public health risk. Many people (even within FDA)
are rather surprised (uncomfortable) with the FDA
position. Now the Beef industry has a petition to use
CO on Beef saying "why not, if seafood can use it, why
can't we?" They tried years ago but were turned down.
For some reason seafood got it and beef did not.
Pandora's box is open. Bottom line is: There is no
smoking gun to prove that CO/TS in unsafe. The FDA
says there simply is no proof it is a health risk. It
seems somebody (important) must die from histamine
poisoning that CO/TS may be masking?
mp
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