Seiner owners in Spain have requested that the Social Marine Institute (ISM) establishes specific protocols to protect shipping operations from the Ebola outbreak. The Spanish National...
Health & food Safety News
Italian Alerts On Mercury A Non-Tariff Barrier?
Italian health officials submitted three notifications in the past month to the RASFF Portal on tuna products; all three instances alert the European Commission of unauthorized mercury levels...
Underground Tuna Storage Discovered
An underground storage compartment for the handling of tuna was discovered in Málaga, Spain, this week as the Civil Guard inspected a clandestine warehouse in an industrial area of El Viso....
Bumble Bee Recalls Pouches With Bad Seals
Bumble Bee Foods has announced the recall of pouches of tuna sold in Wegmans stores in the United States. The products are said to have packaging defects in the form of faulty seals, which...
Tropical Tuna Sponsors 3rd Season Super Chef
Super Chef, the first ever cooking competition to take to the screens in Mauritius, is back for the launch of Season 3. After initially appearing on the TVs of more than one million people in...
Study: Eating Tuna Reduces Chance Of Breast Cancer
A new study, published in the British Medical Journal has found that those who eat a high level of oily fish, such as tuna, are less likely to develop breast cancer. Monitoring 80,000 people,...
How Eating Tuna Could Prevent Hearing Loss
In addition to previously confirmed health bonuses consumption of tuna offers, such as reduced risk of heart disease, stroke, depression and increased brain activity, new studies have revealed...
Canadians Appear Relaxed To Mislabeling Of Tuna
Canadian press have reported that the public seems to be very relaxed about the mislabeling of seafood in the US and Canada; recent studies indicate that 33 percent of fish sold in stores,...
Mercury And Tuna: The Positive Net Effects
Atuna.com has added a new and insightful documentary video, ‘Fish, Mercury, and Nutrition: The Net Effects’, to its health pages, which explains in detail and in a consumer friendly language...
Tuna Workshops Added To African Conference Agenda
It’s just over two weeks to go until the first ever African Tuna Conference (ATC) kick-starts in Cote d’Ivoire. On September 25th-26th, the ATC has plenty of top highlights to offer attendees,...
Can Epilepsy Seizures Be Reduced By Tuna Oils?
Epilepsy seizure frequency could be reduced by low dosage consumption of omega-3 oils found in tuna, claims a new study. Led by Professor Christopher DeGiorgio, of the Department of Neurology...
“Tuna Free” Caterer Learns The Facts And Makes A U-turn
A catering company that prided itself on being “tuna free” as of October last year, is bringing back healthy tuna lunches to food canteens across the Netherlands, after realizing it was...
Spain And Italy Solve CO Smoked Tuna Conflict
For months, a CO-centered dispute between Spanish tuna exporters and Italian health officials cost Spain’s tuna exporting sector a lot of money. Spanish processors were becoming increasingly...
Truth Squad Targets Mercury Misinformation
In June this year, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) revised a joint advisory on fish consumption advice, encouraging pregnant women,...
Is Poverty Shifting US Tuna Sales To Fast Food?
Poor budgetary conditions in US households are causing increased consumption of fast food as an alternative to the more time intense and often more costly option of cooking and preparing home...
Why Can’t American Kids Eat An Albacore Sandwich?
Based on a recent recommendation, children in the US would be lucky to get one albacore tuna sandwich in their lunch box per week. American magazine, Consumer Reports, has announced a new...
Exclusive Gala Dinner Invite For ATC2014 Goers
Attendees of the first ever African Tuna Conference are being offered yet another exclusive opportunity as part of their visit to tuna hub of Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire. Under the care of the...
Are Tuna Ingesting Ocean Plastic Debris?
Fish, including tuna, are assumed by some scientists to be eating small plastic particles from ocean debris, justifying the absence of 99 percent of the 1 million tons of marine trash expected...
Goodbye Tuna! Hello Seaweed?
Tuna will be gone, and the world’s population will be consuming seaweed, says award winning seafood author, Paul Greenberg. He believes that sooner or later we will all be eating seaweed, cod...
Are French Health Officials Getting Stricter On Mercury?
French health officials appear to becoming a lot more vigilant when it comes to tuna reaching the country’s border. French importers of fresh chilled Ecuadorian yellowfin have been thrown into...