Another Free Trade disaster -- imported fish that can put you in the hospital.
Also, the World Trade Orginization has ruled our country of origin laws are illegal and have to be eliminated. The WTO is nothing more than a bunch of corporate lawyers protecting the corporations and their rich investors at the expense of the people. The next time you go out to eat seafood, think about this.......
http://economyincrisis.org/content/we-are-importing-more-unchecked-potentially-toxic-seafood-than-ever-before
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This is a very real threat to the health of every American. A recent Center for Disease Control study found that 44 percent of the foodborne illnesses studied were the result of imported food, with seafood being the culprit more often than any other variety of food.
This is no surprise given where some of this seafood comes from. In China, tilapia are raised in fish farms where they are fed pig manure, known to contain salmonella and other illness-inducing bacteria.
In Vietnam, shrimp being exported to the United States were found encased in ice made from water filled with harmful bacteria. The Vietnamese shrimp exporter, Soc Trang Seafood Joint Stock Company, also had three shipments rejected by Japan in 2012 because banned chemicals were detected. The U.S. frequently accepts shipments from this same company.
Most of the shrimp we eat in the United States comes from Thailand. A 2012 FDA study found that shrimp from Thailand had become resistant to several antibiotics, making them “a reservoir for multidrug-resistant Klebsiella,” a bacteria which can trigger meningitis and pneumonia in humans.
Alabama is one of the few states that properly inspects their seafood, and they reject over 50 percent of imported fish due to safety concerns. Why can’t the federal government do as well as Alabama?
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that makes me feel kind green 
so unless the restaurant KNOWS where it was fished from, you could be eating this stuff... what about frozen 'gortons' type stuff?
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