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FDA urges that oysters, clams, mussels, and some scallops products from Korea should be removed from the market
http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm308353.htm
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is urging food distributors, retailers, and food service operators to remove from sale or service all fresh, frozen, canned, and processed oysters, clams, mussels, and whole and roe-on scallops (molluscan shellfish) from Korea that have entered the United States. This includes molluscan shellfish from Korea that entered the United States prior to May 1, 2012, when the FDA removed such products from the Interstate Certified Shellfish Shippers List (ICSSL), and that which may have inadvertently entered the country after that date. These products and any products made with them may have been exposed to human fecal waste and are potentially contaminated with norovirus.
Molluscan shellfish contaminated with fecal waste and/or norovirus are considered adulterated under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. Following initial notifications last month, a number of food companies have begun to remove these products from their distribution chain. However, many others have yet to take action.
A comprehensive FDA evaluation determined that the Korean Shellfish Sanitation Program (KSSP) no longer meets the sanitation controls specified under the United States National Shellfish Sanitation Program. The FDAs evaluation found significant deficiencies with the KSSP including inadequate sanitary controls, ineffective management of land-based pollution sources and detection of norovirus in shellfish growing areas.
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(69,059 posts)wandy
(3,539 posts)Just think of the time, effort and money it will save food distributors, retailers, and food service operators when they don't have to affix those little "made in Main" stickers to each and every oyster, clam and mussel that came from Korea.
Darn I forgot where DU keeps that Sarcasm tag again.