食品伙伴網(wǎng)導(dǎo)讀：美國(guó)Exponent 公司的化學(xué)調(diào)控及食品安全中心新發(fā)布的報(bào)告為關(guān)于進(jìn)口鯰魚(yú)安全性的討論又增加了新的刺激因素。根據(jù)報(bào)告，食用從中國(guó)和越南進(jìn)口的被污染的鯰魚(yú)會(huì)對(duì)消費(fèi)者造成“嚴(yán)重的長(zhǎng)期的健康影響”。這份報(bào)告說(shuō)，這種進(jìn)口鯰魚(yú)的主要危害包括：致病微生物、抗生素藥物殘留、以及其生長(zhǎng)環(huán)境中有化工產(chǎn)品。美國(guó)參議院農(nóng)業(yè)委員會(huì)的主席布蘭奇林肯22日在國(guó)會(huì)山出示了這份報(bào)告，并譴責(zé)美國(guó)農(nóng)業(yè)部拖延2008年農(nóng)業(yè)法案的一部分--鯰魚(yú)檢查規(guī)定的實(shí)施執(zhí)行，因?yàn)閷?duì)鯰魚(yú)的管轄權(quán)由美國(guó)食品藥品管理局（FDA）移交給了食品標(biāo)準(zhǔn)監(jiān)察局（FSIS）。而美國(guó)漁業(yè)協(xié)會(huì)則對(duì)該報(bào)告進(jìn)行了抨擊，他們稱(chēng)這份報(bào)告反對(duì)競(jìng)爭(zhēng)，并尋求創(chuàng)造一個(gè)食品安全的恐慌。
原文報(bào)道：
Report: Imported Catfish Human Health Risk
by Helena Bottemiller | Jul 23, 2010A new report from Exponent Inc.'s Center for Chemical Regulation and Food Safety is adding new fuel to the debate over catfish import safety. According to the report, eating contaminated catfish imported from Vietnam and China could have "serious long-term human health consequences."
The report cites "major hazards" associated with aquaculture fish, including pathogenic microorganisms, antimicrobial drug residues and environmental chemicals.
Senator Blanche Lincoln (D-AR), chairwoman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, joined the group, Food & Water Watch, and the Catfish Farmers of America in unveiling the report yesterday on Capitol Hill. Lincoln said she had been "loud and clear" on the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) delay in implementing the catfish inspection rule, part of the 2008 Farm Bill, which shifted jurisdiction over catfish safety from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS).
The rule has yet to be implemented. The proposed rule has languished in the Office of Management and Budget reportedly because of objections raised by the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative over concerns that countries currently exporting catfish to the U.S. may not be able to meet the food safety standards that FSIS would require.
"Each day we delay is another day Americans are at risk," said Lincoln yesterday in a briefing with reporters. The USDA was supposed to have begun implementing the rule last fall.
The National Fisheries Institute blasted the briefing yesterday, calling the report a "centerpiece of an anti-competition effort" that seeks to create a food safety scare.
According to the report there would be a number of benefits from the USDA inspection:
-USDA requires that countries exporting products to the U.S. have inspection programs equivalent to the U.S. program based on USDA review.
-USDA requires continuous inspection of the foods it regulates.
-USDA sets standards for microbial hazards, tests for contamination, tests production facilities, and evaluates individual facilities.
-USDA regularly conducts foreign inspections of producers who export to the U.S.
-In the last 11 years, the USDA's regulatory program has decreased Salmonella prevalence in all classes of products it inspects.
-USDA has not certified either China or Vietnam to ship USDA-regulated raw, non-processed products from any meat animal to the U.S.
完整報(bào)告下載---來(lái)自鯰魚(yú)的風(fēng)險(xiǎn)報(bào)告（Catfish-risk-report.pdf)下載
