Monday, November 22, 2010

Making shrimp safe to eat?

Recent samples checks on Thai imports, has shown residue of antibiotics that are deemed illegal for food production in Canada and the United States. These residues are also suppose to be illegal in Thailand. A global company that pledged to flush drugs out of its system years ago. 

The Canadian food inspection agency only scans a fraction of the incoming seafood, but inspectors are still finding tetracyclines an antibiotic, nitrofurans an antimicrobial drug known to be a carcinogen and banned in Canada and fluoroquinolones an antibiotic used in human medicine. Read more...

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