September 25, 2003
EU Detains Seven Batches Of Infected Seafood
Seven separate consignments of the fish, originating in Singapore, were detained by Italian and Dutch customs, said a European Commission report.
A consignment of frozen crawfish from Madagascar had also reached the market before it was found to contain the nitrofuran metabolite nitrofurazone.
In all, seven consignments of frozen swordfish, the fish products which were detained at EU border inspection posts were. Among them were tilapia fish from Taiwan, found to contain nitrofuran metabolite furazolidone, Nile perch from Uganda which were infected with mesophiles, and Chinese frozen cooked crawfish tail containing nitrofuran metabolite nitrofurantoin.
