Month: May 2012

As FDA legislation like the Food Safety Modernization Act shape the face of food safety standards, ABC Research Laboratories keeps pace by bolstering its analytical capabilities through new hires and proficiency training. Increasing existing team member proficiency and hiring highly qualified food testing scientists continues to improve ABC Research's service to the seafood and import/export industries in filth analysis and specialized decomposition analysis. While these services are not new to ABC Research's capabilities, these additional proficiencies will greatly increase efficiency in future testing. …

Pacific bluefin tuna carried radioactivity from Japan’s 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster all the way across the ocean to the shores of California, scientists reported Monday. The amount of Cesium 134 and 137 detected in the fish “didn’t come close to exceeding safety limits,” said doctoral student Daniel Madigan, who studies the migration patterns of tuna at Stanford University, noting that what was in the fish, per gram, is lower than the amount of naturally occurring radioactive potassium found per gram in a banana. …

Warmer water than usual for this time of year and lots of small brown shrimp moving into coastal estuaries have prompted Alabama and Mississippi marine resources officials to open shrimping season Wednesday morning. …