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There's something fishy about the U.S. seafood industry, according to a new study that will appear in the February issue of Consumer Reports magazine. The study, carried out by investigative reporter Trudy Lieberman, found widespread contamination and mislabeling of seafood in retail fish shops and supermarkets in New York City and Chicago. Of the 113 random samples of fish purchased in both cities, 29% were spoiled and 44% were contaminated with fecal bacteria; 40% of the swordfish samples had an impermissible level of mercury...
...report gives ammunition to consumer advocates who argue for mandatory seafood inspection. At present, the handling of fish -- as opposed to poultry and meat -- is largely unregulated by the Federal Government. "The study is highly disturbing, because it further proves that contaminated seafood is readily making its way to consumers' plates," says Jodie Silverman of Public Voice for Food and Health Policy. But the U.S. Food and Drug Administration disputed Consumer Reports' findings, arguing that the sample is too small to be significant...
...cannot guarantee success. About 9% of the SEED companies failed after only two months. Nearly 1 out of 5 MEP start-ups folded in the first year. Alfred Raulet of Fairhaven, Mass., lost $5,000 of his personal savings and $6,500 in unemployment benefits when his new wholesale seafood business went under for lack of customer orders, which the 50-year-old attributes to the slowdown in the economy. He is currently unemployed...
...surreptitiously filmed the hundreds of dolphins trapped and drowned in the Maria Luisa's nets. The resulting 11-minute video, aired on network news shows, not only triggered a nationwide boycott of tuna in 1988 but also forced canners to change their ways. Last year H.J. Heinz, Van Camp Seafood and Bumble Bee Seafoods announced that they would no longer buy tuna caught in the dolphin-killing nets...
Young workers with little to lose may gladly embrace incentive plans. Long John Silver's, a Kentucky-based chain of seafood shops, launched a pay-for- performance program last October at its 1,000 company-owned stores. The plan, which encouraged employees to increase store business by suggesting that customers order such items as a king-size drink or a slice of pie, worked so well that some employees boosted their wages more than 75 cents an hour during the first quarter, from about $4.25. Says Wendy Lane, 23, a restaurant worker in St. Clairsville, Ohio, who added...