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"Too Easy to Cheat"
This investigative story focuses on fish and shellfish in the Chesapeake Bay, where both species are declining due to growing demand and lack of law enforcement. The article explains how cuts in law enforcement have caused the Virginia Marine Patrol to have a small staff, low budget, and lower penalties for fishing violations.
Tags: FOIA; law enforcement
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America's Fish: Fair or foul -- In tests of fish across the U.S., we found some room for improvement
A Consumer Reports examination of the nation's supermarket seafood counters found that "although most seafood was safe to eat, there were enough exceptions to suggest that the seafood industry has considerable room for improvement -- and that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which oversees most seafood-safety matters, is falling short in key areas." Half of the swordfish samples tested exceeded the "action level," for methylmercury, which can harm the nervous system. The magazine advises pregnant women and young children not to eat swordfish or shark. It also found that one in eight samples of tuna had unacceptable levels of histamine, a chemical that can cause hives and other reactions.
Tags: fish; food safety; seafood; swordfish; spoilage; e. coli; histamine; methylmercury; mercury; tuna; shellfish; Food and Drug Administration; FDA
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No title (id: 13804)
Dateline conducted an eight month investigation into the thriving blackmarket in bootlegged shellfish. Dateline discovered that harvesting and selling shellfish illegally from polluted waters happens far more often than the public and government regulators realize. The investigation was able to show how perhaps 10 percent of the shellfish market -- about 17 million clams and oysters -- are harvested illegally each year. (April 14, May 14, 1996)
Tags: Thompson Rhee Bland Prediger et al Shell game A raw deal Contest entry FOIA 30 pgs. TAPE
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No title (id: 6361)
Wall Street Journal's eight-part series on food safety investigates the case of cyanide-tainted Chilean grapes; unsanitary meat processing plants; U.S. Department of Agriculture's flawed plan to let meatpackers speed up their slaughterhouse operations; gaps in the nation's milk-monitoring programs that allow veterinary drugs and other contaminants to go undetected; the bootleg shellfish industry, which harvests from sewage-contaminated waters and may be spreading hepatitis and food poisoning; inadequate border inspection programs; flaws in the Federal Crop Insurance Corp. costing taxpayers millions of dollars; and lack of safety regulation that costs farmers their health and sometimes their lives, February - November 1989.
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No title (id: 1265)
Easy Reader (Hermosa Beach, Calif.) looks at the shellfish contamination in Santa Monica Bay, May 23, 1985.
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