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Seafood News
Selected world seafood news for our readers by SeafoodNET

• Millennium Fisheries Conference: ASEAN-SEAFDEC 2001, November 21-24
• FDA Announces Tolerance of Oxytetracycline in Fish
• USDC Takes New Review of China's Crawfish Dumping
• Links between Consumption of Contaminated Fish and Adverse Chronic Human Health Effects on Low Income, Minority Populations to be Studied
• Public Fisheries Seminar
• The European Commission Adopted a Strategy to Reduce the Presence of Dioxins and Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) in the Environment, Animal Feed, and Food FDA Establishes Inspection Guidelines for Allergens
• Sanitization of the US Mail through the Use of Food Irradiation Technology
• Anti-Ag Biotech Groups Target Seafood Restaurant Managers and Grocery Chains
• Food Safety - Progress report 2000 (.PDF)
• Joint FAO/WHO Expert Consultation on Microbiological risk assessment of Campylobacter spp. in broiler chickens and Vibrio Spp. in Seafood, Geneva (.PDF)
• Global Forum of Food Safety Regulation in Morocco
• Proposed Draft Code of Practice for Fish and Fishery Products (.PDF)
• *Comments in Response to the Above Report (.PDF) Draft Response to the Codex Executive Committee Regarding Clarification of the Terms "Hazard Analysis" and "Risk Analysis" (.PDF)
• Matters Referred by the Codex Alimentarius Commission and/or Other Codex Committees to the Food Hygiene Committee (.PDF)
• Proposed Draft Guidelines for the Control of Listeria monocytogenes in Foods (.PDF)
• Crucial Gathering in Japan to Decide Fate of Southern Bluefin
• Estuary Habitat Restoration
• Gulf of Maine/Bay of Fundy Population of Harbor Porpoise Louisiana - TMDLs for Waters in the Mermentau and Vermilion/Teche River Basins Pathogens of Raw and Undercooked Seafood (.PDF)
• Fishery Research Proposals Sought
• CSPI Asks FDA to "...require food labels to disclose common allergens and to set manufacturing standards to prevent the inadvertent contamination of non-allergenic foods with allergens..."
• FSIS to Post Positive E. coli Sampling Program Test Results on the Internet US Food Safety System and Structure
• Congress to Consider Increased Food Monitoring; Bioterrorism Fears May Spur a Change in 'Byzantine' System
• A European Approach to Food Safety and GMOs (.PDF)
• GAO Report: Food Safety and Security - Fundamental Changes Needed to Ensure Safe Food
• GAO Report: Food Safety - CDC is Working to Address Limitations in Several of Its Foodborne Disease Surveillance Systems
• FDA Science Forum Set for February 20 - 21 in Washington, DC
• The USDA Economic Research Service Issued a Report, Titled: "Aquaculture Outlook"
• Determination of Endangered Status for the Scaleshell Mussel
• Suisan Kaisha to Buy Unilever's U.S. Seafood Unit
• Thai Union Frozen Products First-Half Profit Mangrove-Friendly Shrimp Culture Project 2000 Highlight
• Thailand Tuna Market Report: Raw Materials Situation
• Shrimp Market Report from Thailand
• The National Marine Fisheries Service's "Fishery Market News"
• NMSF: Status of Fisheries of U.S. (.PDF)