US food safety recalls for salmon and lobster

The FDA has issued further product recall press releases this week including:

Vita Food Products, Inc. of Chicago, Illinois notifying the public that twelve individual packages of Vita Nova Salmon, were sold at Kroger stores in Houston, Texas on or after July 22 of this year that may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. A further 192 individual packages may also have been affected. Follow the link for more details.

The FDA has warned against eating tomalley in American Lobster (Maine Lobster), because of potential contamination with dangerous levels of the toxins that cause Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning (PSP). Being English I didn't know what tomalley was, but tomalley is the substance found in the body cavity of lobsters that fulfills the functions of both the liver and the pancreas.

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