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...weakest link in the country's monitoring system is seafood inspection. Consumption of fish has shot up 20% since 1980, to about 3 billion lbs. annually, mainly because it has been touted as beneficial to health. Yet it is the only food without a comprehensive, mandatory federal inspection program. The alarming fact is that about three-quarters of seafood arrives on diners' plates without a look-see by anyone...
Though there is no reason for fish to be inspected any less strenuously than meat or poultry, the FDA manages to examine just 1% of domestic seafood and 3% of imports (two-thirds of the fish Americans eat comes from abroad). Inspectors get to about a third of the nation's 4,000 seafood-processing plants a year and to some facilities once in three years...
...most active inspection program is run by the Commerce Department's National Marine Fisheries Service, but it is purely voluntary and paid for by the plant operators and major fish outlets like fast-food restaurants. About 7% of seafood plants participate, and they tend to be the cleanest ones that need inspection least...
...stunned. "Must be a cruel joke," I thought. Or perhaps some strange dining hall prophecy about a March to come to in a distant future, when even Seafood Seashell Scampi or the nameless big beefy "extravaganzas" in brown gravy will attain nutritional grandeur...
...special meals" that can be ordered in advance and at least stand a chance of being fresher and better prepared. The major carriers offer as many as 18 alternative menus, including kosher, Hindu, vegetarian, high protein, no salt, low calorie, low cholesterol, diabetic and children's. American's seafood plate is particularly popular among veteran flyers. Special meals cost the companies more because they require special handling and are not mass produced. Says San Francisco businessman David Kliman: "It allows me to choose what to eat rather than have it just dished...