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  • August 2008

    • Women's Mercury Levels Tied to Region, Income

      Chicago Tribune  |  Aug 30, 08 8:31 PM CDT

      Women's Mercury Levels Tied to Region, Income

      (Newser) - American women are afflicted by high Mercury levels depending on where they live and how much they earn, a new study says. Northeasterners are worst off, with a 20% chance of high mercury, 10 points higher than the national rate. Midwesterners eat less seafood and had lower levels overall, the Chicago Tribune reports. More »

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      fish  • Midwest  • sushi  • Northeast  • mercury  • fetal health

    • NY Sushi Sleuths Uncover Fishy Tricks

      New York Times  |  Aug 22, 08 3:20 AM CDT

      NY Sushi Sleuths Uncover Fishy Tricks

      (Newser) - Two New York City high school students used DNA testing to uncover a bait-and-switch scam in local restaurants and fish markets, the New York Times reports. Fish being sold as prized white tuna turned out to be the much more common—and cheaper—Mozambique tilapia, while red snapper proved to be anything from cod to endangered Acadian redfish. More »

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      DNA  • restaurant  • fish  • genetic testing  • sushi  • genetic code  • DNA database

    • Bluefin Tuna Tricked Into Spawning

      Time  |  Aug 17, 08 7:22 AM CDT

      Bluefin Tuna Tricked Into Spawning

      (Newser) - A seafood entrepreneur thinks he can solve the world's bluefin tuna shortage by making the fish feel frisky, Time reports. German ex-pat Hagen Stehr, the baron of a $230-million Australian seafood empire, is simulating the tuna's breeding grounds in a hatchery—a "fishy virtual reality" with 14 hours of daylight and water at 73°F—and has succeeded in harvesting fertilized eggs from bluefin breeding stock. More »

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      environmentalism  • endangered species  • fishing  • food industry  • sushi  • tuna  • overfishing

  • June 2008

    • Can Fish-Hungry Japan Go Sustainable?

      Gourmet  |  Jun 26, 08 7:16 AM CDT

      Can Fish-Hungry Japan Go Sustainable?

      (Newser) - Japan loves its fish: The island nation consumes an average of 147 pounds per person a year, compared to America’s 17. So, Samuel Fromartz wonders in Gourmet , how can Japanese fisheries continue to support supermarket fish counters as large as an entire US meat section? The answer, slowly gaining ground, is sustainable fishing, and retailers’ desire to have an eco-friendly stamp. More »

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      Japan  • fish  • Tokyo  • sushi  • tuna  • sustainability  • fishery

  • March 2008

    • Pizza Police Pursue Posers

      The Smart Set  |  Mar 12, 08 3:20 PM CDT

      Pizza Police Pursue Posers

      (Newser) - Think that pineapple-and ham-concoction is a pizza? Not according to Italian law, Julie Reno writes in the Smart Set. Only hand-kneaded dough, rolled to no more than 14 inches in diameter, topped with San Marzano plum tomatoes and baked in a brick wood-fired oven qualifies. La Pizza Polizia crown such authentic Neapolitan pies with Guaranteed Traditional Specialty status: Only two NYC pizzerias have made the cut. More »

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      food  • Italy  • sushi  • authenticity  • Naples  • pizza  • Gianni Alemanno

  • January 2008

    • Japan Sends Out Sushi Squad

      AFP  |  Jan 30, 08 11:50 AM CST

      Japan Sends Out Sushi Squad

      (Newser) - Japan, worried that the globalization of sushi is embarrassing its national cuisine—think California rolls—is about to start certifying which of the estimated 25,000 Japanese restaurants around the world are authentic. Experts based in major cities, including London, Paris, and Los Angeles, will give eateries that pass muster a logo showing chopsticks holding a cherry petal and a rising-sun flag, reports AFP. More »

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      Japan  • restaurant  • sushi  • Japanese food

    • 'Sushi Capital' Japan Isn't Sweating Tuna Scare

      Associated Press  |  Jan 27, 08 5:35 AM CST

      'Sushi Capital' Japan Isn't Sweating Tuna Scare

      (Newser) - New Yorkers may be in the throes of a sushi scare after the Times reported on the dangerous mercury levels in tuna, but the Japanese aren't batting an eyelid. One official's biggest concern was that the controversy would ignite "groundless rumors" about a healthy food, AP reports. "We're not talking about eating 10 tuna sushi every day—in which case I might be a little worried," said one sushi lover. More »

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      health  • Japan  • fish  • sushi  • tuna  • mercury

    • High Mercury Levels Found in Tuna Sushi

      New York Times  |  Jan 23, 08 7:50 AM CST

      High Mercury Levels Found in Tuna Sushi

      (Newser) - A quarter of tuna sushi sampled in New York contained mercury levels so high that the FDA could take legal action to ban the fish from the market, reports the New York Times .  Although the sushi was collected in New York City, experts believe samples elsewhere would be similar. “No one should eat a meal of tuna” more than once about every three weeks, said the professor who analyzed the samples. More »

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      FDA  • sushi  • tuna  • mercury

  • June 2007

    • Tuna Shortage Triggers Sushi Crisis

      New York Times  |  Jun 25, 07 4:21 AM CDT

      Tuna Shortage Triggers Sushi Crisis

      (Newser) - Plummeting supplies of tuna have become a recipe for disaster in Japan, where sushi lovers eat 60,000 tons of the fish a year. Desperate chefs are experimenting with increasingly bizarre sushi substitutes, including deer and even horse, the New York Times reports. But sushi without tuna in Japan is like American baseball without hotdogs. More »

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      Japan  • food  • fish  • horse  • sushi  • tuna  • deer

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