The lesson learned is to be curious about what is in your food, where it came from, how it was grown or raised, and ask whether your source is reputable and trustworthy.
Not the first time that anyone has heard about food contamination, but there was an article today about the high levels of contamination in imported seafood from precarious places including Vietnam, China, Taiwan, Malaysia and Indonesia. In certain cases 40-50% of seafood testing comes out positive for drugs like chloramphenicol, nitrofurans and malachite green,which are banned from all food (I can't even pronounce them!). Seafood with the worst records of contamination: shrimp, catfish, crabmeat and tilapia.
I believe this goes back to the whole problem of fish/seafood farming. Yes, the demand for these foods have dramatically increased, there is high risk of overfishing the wild, but to farm them in sewage water or even the same water of the wild that shows ecosystem imbalance should not persist. The result time and time again is sick fish. Antibiotics is not an answer; the detrimental impact of drugs, antibiotics, hormone injections on humans defeats the purpose of food. Food is suppose to build your body up, not get more sick as a result.
And, by the way, I met three people over the weekend who don't know each other, and all of them had food poisoning of some sort. And, one was from calamari in Iowa.
Here's the article: http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/40198123
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