Tuna linked to salmonella outbreak in 20 states

[MindMover]

Source: CBS

(AP) WASHINGTON - A yellowfin tuna product used to make dishes like sushi and sashimi sold at restaurants and grocery stores has been linked with an outbreak of salmonella that has sickened more than 100 people in 20 states and the District of Columbia, federal health authorities said Friday.


The Food and Drug Administration said 116 illnesses have been reported, including 12 people who have been hospitalized. No deaths have been reported.


Moon Marine USA Corp. of Cupertino, Calif., also known as MMI, is voluntarily recalling 58,828 pounds of frozen raw yellowfin tuna. It was labeled as Nakaochi Scrape AA or AAA when it was sold to grocery stores and restaurants and is scraped off the fish bones and looks like a ground product.


The product is not available for sale to individual consumers but may have been used to make sushi, sashimi, ceviche and similar dishes available in restaurants and grocery stores. Many of the people who became ill reported eating raw tuna in sushi as "spicy tuna," the FDA said.

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57414006/tuna-linked-to-salmonella-outbreak-in-20-states

[wordpix]

1. this and the worms found in fish is why I like my sushi vegetarian

[pipoman]

5. Contrry to popular belief

there is danger of food borne illness in eating raw fruit and veggies too..

[wordpix]

18. +1 Did you see that segment of The Monster Within or whatever that Animal Planet show is called?

The worms in fish are really scary. No way I'd eat raw fish.

[hobbit709]

2. Which is why anything I eat that comes out of the water is given the Louis Pasteur treatment

[marybourg]

3. tunaella

[pipoman]

4. There is unavoidable danger of food borne illness in eating

any food raw...

[PatrynXX]

6. another form of pink slime huh

if not cooked right. oops


In japan I guess (thanks to paul watson) they actually make shit burgers. O_O say I think the Rat Burger sounds better on Demolition Man

[wordpix]

19. thanks to paul watson? You're pretty far afield there and also wrong. Where's your link?

A shit burger due to Paul Watson? Really? Do you think we're dummies here?

[grasswire]

7. is this Moon Marine part of the Sun Myung Moon fishing empire?

Moon is now “dominating one of America’s trendiest indulgences: sushi,” according to the Chicago Tribune as reported by Monica Eng, Delroy Alexander and David Jackson.

The Moon-controlled enterprise called “True World Group” has apparently largely fulfilled the would-be “messiah’s” 1980s prophecy. The business ”builds fleets of boats, runs dozens of distribution centers and, each day, supplies most of the nation’s estimated 9,000 sushi restaurants” reports the Chicago Tribune.

True World Foods reported revenue for 2005 was $250 million. Its fleet of 230 refrigerated trucks delivers raw fish to 7,000 sushi and fine-dining restaurants across America and Moon’s Alaska plant processes more than 20 million pounds of salmon, cod and pollock annually.

[zooraccoon]

9. Moon Marine not connected to True World Foods

Just some facts with a word of caution:

* True World IS Rev. Moon-associated
* I'm NOT a defender of "moonies" (completely different faith)
* I DON'T work for True World or any of its suppliers
* The sushi world IS being rocked by this salmonella outbreak
* I AM an avid sushi fan
* I AM an employee of the largest retailer of sushi products on the west coast

more importantly...
* Moon Marine has NO connection to True World Foods
and
* True World Foods does NOT source any products from Moon Marine

It's probably wise to NOT make connections that aren't there...since doing so CAN start an internet rumor whose source CAN be traced.

[grasswire]

11. that sounds somewhat like a threat

eh?

[grasswire]

12. welcome to DU

Did you register just to post about Moonies?

[HiPointDem]

17. Yes, the poster apparently registered just to tell you not to ask questions about the Moonies.

1 post, and nothing since.

[pansypoo53219]

8. sushi to me is bait.

to get real fish. blegh.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

10. I don't like to eat raw fish in Minnesota

In Japan, the fish that is sold for sushi is subject to strict handling conditions. For example, you cannot sell any fish for sashimi (raw fish) or sushi (vinegared rice with raw fish or other toppings) unless it was caught the previous night.

Even in Japan, I prefer to eat my raw fish at department store basement grocery store seafood counters, because they have the freshest and highest quality fish outside of the immediate Tsukiji Market area.

[wordpix]

20. the fish still might have worms so better be careful

all is not well in the oceans these days

[RobertEarl]

13. Thank God it isn't radiation

That is what i thought when i first heard about this: That the tuna had been radiated because of the radiation in the Pacific from Japan.

I am sure if it was radiated the government would tell us and not blame the sickness - which is similar to radiation sickness - on radiation like Caesium or Strontium of which tons were deposited in the Pacific.

[MindMover]

14. Way to analytical....also you think globally....dangerous

[olddad56]

15. wouldn't be weird if salmon was later linked to tunanella?

[Nihil]

16. Nice one! (n/t)