Major US supermarkets have recalled several frozen shrimp products by India-based Avanti Frozen Foods, a subsidiary of Thai Union Group, due to a salmonella outbreak. The call back includes...
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Ministry Raises Health Alert For Italian Yellowfin
The Ministry of Health in Italy has issued a recall for thawed yellowfin fillets after it concluded that they contained chemical substances which represent a health risk. The incident involves...
French Tuna Recalled Due To Pesticide In Guar Gum
A French tuna processing company has recalled several of its products due to the presence of an elevated quantity of ethylene oxide in the guar gum used in the items. Tuna firm Chancerelle has...
EU Alerts: Spain Stops Shipments Due To Wrongly Filled Paperwork
During April, only three tuna-related alerts were raised with the EU’s Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF). Two came from Spanish authorities who rejected two consignments at the...
Sweden Hit With Foodborne Outbreak From Vietnam Tuna For 4th Time
Swedish authorities have reported a new food poisoning outbreak due to high levels of histamine in tuna imported from Vietnam via the Netherlands. This is the fourth time that an incident such...
Study Shows How Tuna Benefits People Susceptible To Alzheimer’s
Consumption of fatty fish such as tuna can provide a large resilience to Alzheimer’s disease in people at higher genetic risk of developing it. This is part of the conclusion reached by the...
Are There Microplastics In Canned Tuna?
How much microplastic is in our food, especially in the fish we consume? The problem of these contaminants is an emerging field of study and there is not yet a lot of data available and their...
Study: Can Skipjack Protein Help Humans With Colon Diseases?
A new study by Chinese scientists has shown that bioactive peptides (BP), which are fragments of protein, derived from skipjack can improve the protective layer in the intestines of laboratory...
EU Alerts: Italian Authorities Spot High E 300 Levels Once Again
In good news, there were few tuna-related complaints during February, announced the Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF). Only two issues were brought to the attention of this EU body,...
Peruvian Tuna Exports Not Meeting Expectations
In the last couple of years, the Peruvian tuna industry has been very outspoken about wanting to expand its foothold in international markets. However, the latest report by the Global Business...
Ireland’s Food Safety Authority Recalls Tuna But Fails To Show Origin
The Food Safety Authority (FSA) of Ireland put out an alert on Monday to recall batches of tuna products but curiously did not announce the country of origin of the items. The call back...
Thailand Tests Markets’ Tuna For COVID-19 To Reassure Consumers
In order to boost consumers' confidence in the local tuna and other fresh and frozen seafood in Bangkok markets, the Public Health Ministry has been testing these products for COVID-19. So...
Tuna’s Omega-3 Can Help Reduce Asthma During Adolescence
Children with a higher intake of acids from tuna and other fish species can have a lower risk of incident asthma up to mid-adolescence. This was the conclusion of a recent study published on...
FDA Says US Babies Should Have More Seafood In Diets
On average, Americans are not consuming sufficient fish and seafood in their diets, according to the US Food & Drug Administration (FDA). This includes toddlers between 12 and 23 months...
TU Launches Calcium Tablets Made From Tuna Bones
Yesterday, Thai Union Ingredients (TUI) introduced a new product UniQtmBone – a powder made out of tuna bone rich in calcium. The fine, off-white powder has a neutral taste and smell and is...
What Consumers Read And Don’t Read On Tuna Labels
Italians are known to love canned tuna – on average they consume 2.5 kilograms of the product per year. Among all EU nations, their household nominal expenditure is the highest when it comes...
Social Media Exaggerates Contamination In Thai Cannery
Thai officials have stated that the information circulating on social media this week that there is a fresh surge of 900 COVID-19 cases after 3,800 tests were done in a canned tuna factory in...
EU Alerts: Yellowfin Products Rejected At EU Borders
In December, The Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) reported six incidents varying from histamine to high levels of food additives in EU imported tuna products. The most serious...
Tuna Recommended In Fat-Blasting Diet To Start 2021
After indulging during the year-end holidays, many people always plan to eat healthier food and lose some weight at the beginning of a new year. So in January, numerous diets to get rid of...
Tuna May Help Block COVID-19 Transmissions
Tuna is among those food items with preventive qualities against COVID-19 infections. Scientists from the Bohai University in China concluded this after their research showed that a...