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Posted on 10/14/2008 10:23:51 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Tainted Fish From Famous Chinese Lake Found
OCTOBER 15, 2008 08:48
Tainted ayu, or “sweetfish,” with high levels of formaldehyde and as hard as rubber have been found in China’s Jiangsu Province.
Chinese media reported yesterday that Jiangsu authorities found the tainted fish after studying ayu caught in Lake Tai (Taihu) and sold in a market in the city of Wuxi.
A Wuxi agricultural official said, “The so-called rubber sweetfish has been a social issue after being found in Suzhou. But this is the first time for the contaminated fish to be found in Wuxi.”
He said the rubber sweetfish is as tough as snake skin since merchants put the fish in formaldehyde for a long time to prevent spoiling.
A Wuxi resident said the sweetfish he bought in a market was as tough as rubber.
Sweetfish from the lake has been considered one of China’s four most delicious fish since the Ming Dynasty, and is called “whitebait” in Korea.
Chinese food safety laws bar fish from being treated with formaldehyde, but merchants frequently use the chemical to prevent fish from going bad. Formaldehyde is known to cause lung cancer.
Ping!
Yeah, ok, so it's tainted with formaldehyde, and it's hard as rubber.... But you just can't believe what a deal I got on it...!
And the stuff lasts forever!
/johnny
I remember dissecting formaldehyde-preserved creatures in various biology classes. Somehow, the topic of lunch never came up-thankfully, nothing else did, either! Man, the stench!
I was thinking the same thing.
Thats a smell that sticks with you man!!
Your clothes, your nose, throat etc.....
YUCK!
Every day it is something that is so retarded it goes beyond words that can be used to comment.
Another sensational headline - implies the lake itself is polluted - then, in the article it states that formaldyhyde is known to cause lung cancer while our fed gov has this to say at the current time:
[Formaldehyde is a colorless, flammable, strong-smelling gas that is used to manufacture building materials and produce many household products (see Question 1).
Formaldehyde sources in the home include pressed wood products, cigarette smoke, and fuel-burning appliances (see Question 2).
When exposed to formaldehyde, some individuals may experience various short-term health effects (see Question 3).
Formaldehyde has been classified as a human carcinogen (cancer-causing substance) by the International Agency for Research on Cancer and as a probable human carcinogen by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (see Question 4).
Research studies of workers exposed to formaldehyde have suggested an association between formaldehyde exposure and cancers of the nasal sinuses, nasopharynx, and brain, and possibly leukemia (see Question 5).]
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