A California company on Thursday recalled thousands of pounds of frozen fish from China after two people in Chicago became ill from eating what may have been toxic pufferfish, officials said.
The fish was labeled monkfish, but federal officials found life-threatening levels of tetrodotoxin in the fish. The toxin is typically associated with pufferfish.
Reason #32769 why I don’t buy food products that are from China.
The pufferfish poison “is really one of the most toxic things that you can find in food,” said Caroline Smith DeWaal, food safety director for the Center for Science in the Public Interest. “It really illustrates the weakness in the U.S. program for overseeing imports.”
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