Pet Food is regulated by the Food and Drug Administration. Pet foods aren’t required to have “pre-market approval†by the FDA, although agency guidelines say it is supposed to ensure that ingredients used in the foods are safe and appropriate.
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The armed agents stroll into the frigid market, where the pungent stink of seafood assaults them. The smell pervades their clothes and the scaly, gooey water clings to their boots. They pass burly men slinging slabs of fish with gleaming hooks and...
As more American families strive to live a healthier lifestyle, Del Monte Foods (NYSE:DLM) announces that Chef Art Smith, award-winning cookbook author and Oprah Winfrey’s personal chef, will be making media appearances in support of the Del...
RD Group of Companies in General Santos City is seeking incentives for a major expansion project involving a P350 million cold storage facility, an official confirmed last week.Joaquin Tiongco, investment division head of the City Economic...
The Solomon Islands foreign minister, Patteson Oti has expressed concern that a Thai company, which cans tuna it imports from his country, is undercutting the locally manufactured product.
He says it is worrying that the Thai company imports frozen...
Pacific bluefin tuna leave Japan’s coast and swim east at breakneck speed to school in North American coastal waters. Many of them return on nonstop flights from Los Angeles as slabs of fresh toro, the “foie gras of the seaâ€, fattened, refrigerated...
With a month to go before the start of the 2007 fishing season for Mediterranean bluefin tuna, WWF is asking the European Union to hold back half its fishing quota or watch the stock collapse.
The quota for this season’s fishery is more than...
Australian aquaculture pioneer Clean Seas Tuna Limited has successfully induced reproductive maturation among male Southern Bluefin Tuna (SBT) broodstock housed in the company’s purpose-built, land-based breeding facility at Arno Bay. The company...
Hermasa says it has closed the year 2006 after having sold up to 100 tuna packing machines TUNIPACK® which have been installed all over the world. RTS INTERNATIONAL, a company created by Hermasa to provide leasing services for the TUNIPACK®, has...
WWF is urging EU bluefin tuna fishing nations to hold back half their quotas - in a renewed urgent effort to avoid stock collapse ahead of the 2007 Mediterranean bluefin tuna fishing season.
The quota for this season’s fishery is more than double...
Twenty-two Vietnamese fishermen were detained earlier this week along with two fishing vessels on suspicion of illegally fishing in Malaysian waters.The Maritime Enforcement Agency intercepted the vessels on April 2 about 12.45 am at Beting Raja...
The Bush administration wants to open the coastal waters to fish farms.Some of those farms have been blamed for polluting the oceans. But not all fish farms raise concern. Nor do they all raise fish.Abalone on its way to a Monterey restaurant was...
Papua New Guinea has discovered that illegal fishing by foreign vessels within its 200-mile economic zone limit can be a profitable venture. Last year, PNG National Fisheries Authority (NFA) reported that illegal fishing generated a total of K5.6...
Two local executives in Central Mindanao lauded the setting up of Mindanao Halal Authority (Minha), Inc. Wednesday.Mayor Pedro Acharon Jr. was optimistic the establishment of Halal certifying body in the city would further boost the local economy,...
A Solomon Islands government delegation is in PNG country to learn more about the developments that have taken place in the fishing industry.The group headed by finance and treasury minister Gordon Darcy arrived for talks with the Papua New Guinea...
The Department of Primary Industries is urging fishermen to adhere to limits on the number of blue fin tuna they can take a day.Huge tuna weighing up to 130 kilograms are being caught off the Portland coast.It is the second year in a row the big...
Another five Malaysian tuna trawlers and their crew failed to escape with their marine cargo off Kota Kinabalu and Kota Belud in Malaysia last week.The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency intercepted four Kudat-Malyasia registered trawlers laden...
U.S. Consumers looking for all-natural, healthful protein sources with gourmet flavor have been provided a new option with Chicken of the Sea International’s new Genova brand of premium, Italian-style tuna and salmon.Rich in omega-3 and low in fat...
A commercial tuna fishing company has pursued its project to start tuna fishing in the Marianas despite an earlier debacle with the Commonwealth Development Authority.Courtney Zietzke, president of Northern Marianas Fisheries Inc., which recently...
A tuna processing company has allegedly lost recently to thieves 25 scuba diving tanks containing carbon monoxide, a highly toxic gas, an owner of a diving equipment shop said last week. British national Christopher Dearne, proprietor of the Tuna...
(From The Sign On San Diego)In regard to the story “Eating fish: There's a catch,†(By R.J. Ignelzi, Currents Health, April 3), American Tuna is comprised of six fishing families from San Diego. These families represent generations of fishing...
With hook and bait in his calloused hands, Ali Mohamed casts his line - just as fishermen in these warm waters have done for centuries.Like the 300 or so other fishermen out in their tiny boats on this breezy early morning, Ali uses no nets, no...
Major European retailers and seafood companies and other organizations have joined WWF in a commitment to healthy oceans by signing an open letter appealing to the European Commission and Member States to take action, before it is too late, for...
A diver for thirty years, and a photographer for 28, he’s spent decades documenting the magnificence of the sea and its creatures.But over as the years, as man perfected the hunt for fish and pollution poisoned the world's waters, he began to...
Deeper penetration of tuna product exports to the vast European market hinges on the ability of industry players to sustain good manufacturing practices that enabled the country to pass the inspection conducted by European Union (EU) food and...
Ten Point Manufacturing Corp., a firm with Japanese investors registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission, has applied for a permit at the City Economic Management and Cooperative Development Office (CEMCDO), to set up a tuna processing...
The European commission needs to take action against countries involved in the illegal over-fishing of endangered blue-fin tuna, the UK's fisheries minister, Ben Bradshaw, said.Mr. Bradshaw said he fully supported curbs on excessive catches on...
A New Zealand fishing champion says the seasonal fishing quota for the offshore fishing of Pacific bluefin tuna is being reached in just one day.Recreational fishermen from around the country have been heading to the Hokitika Trench, about 55...
The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources has earmarked P10 million to improve at least eight government laboratories spread across the country as an offshoot of European Union’s favorable assessment of the Philippines fishing industry, a top...
Various organizations took part in a non violent protest rally in front of Sri Lanka’s Fisheries Ministry in early April demanding protection for fishermen rights and limits on foreign fishing.Thousands of fishermen and various organizations...
