I am involved in the seafood industry in Vietnam. We are the largest supplier of crustaceans and shell fish to all the major hotels in Vietnam, some in Cambodia and also have regular exports to Hong Kong, China and Thailand.
Our suppliers are monitored and their products are randomly checked. We select a sample and send it to the Pasteur Institute. The Institute process meets and exceeds the globally accepted HACCP standards. The certification is a requirement from the major hotel international chains.
In the past 10 years we have had some very minor issues with contamination but nothing that would cause a health issue.
Many of these "poison fish/seafood/food issues" are just gossip. I am not saying that suppliers don't inject or try and get some extra financial benefit by adding chemicals to their products but it would be a very foolish thing to do and would absolutely ruin their business and livelihood.
In general it is best to buy frozen or live seafood products.
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Thank you for this input. Any other advice to the average consumer than to just buy frozen or live seafood products? For instance, only eat at seafood restaurants with tanks with live seafood, or something? What about squid - I love squid, and think that it's great in the region, but I have also been warned about them dipping the squid in some chemical. It would be such a shame to stop eating a product that is so good, cheap, and ubiquitous in the region.dirtymacca wrote:I am involved in the seafood industry in Vietnam. We are the largest supplier of crustaceans and shell fish to all the major hotels in Vietnam, some in Cambodia and also have regular exports to Hong Kong, China and Thailand.
Our suppliers are monitored and their products are randomly checked. We select a sample and send it to the Pasteur Institute. The Institute process meets and exceeds the globally accepted HACCP standards. The certification is a requirement from the major hotel international chains.
In the past 10 years we have had some very minor issues with contamination but nothing that would cause a health issue.
Many of these "poison fish/seafood/food issues" are just gossip. I am not saying that suppliers don't inject or try and get some extra financial benefit by adding chemicals to their products but it would be a very foolish thing to do and would absolutely ruin their business and livelihood.
In general it is best to buy frozen or live seafood products.
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Usually in the local markets non-live seafood is on a crate or container with sometimes crushed ice on top or underneath. No idea how long the seafood been out at room temperature. Haven't seen proper refrigerators or freezers that would support fresh frozen or flash frozen food. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
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In general frozen seafood usually tastes like a watery mess, IMO.In general it is best to buy frozen or live seafood products.
Sure, throw a freshly killed seafood product in the freezer for a few days ONLY before consumption, but if it's been kept frozen longer than a week then you've wasted your time and money, IMO.
Any commercial seafood product purchased from supermarkets have been frozen already for months, if not longer!
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I agree that companies with contracts supplying hotels etc are unlikely/less likely to have contaminated product, for the reason you give - but the individual market sellers that buy from individual importers/sellers are not bound by the same rigorous checks and can do what they like. The formalin injection of food and meat primarily from Vietnamese sources isn't gossip - routine market tests are done in places like Vientiane and Pakse and it is very real.Miguelito wrote:dirtymacca wrote:
Many of these "poison fish/seafood/food issues" are just gossip. I am not saying that suppliers don't inject or try and get some extra financial benefit by adding chemicals to their products but it would be a very foolish thing to do and would absolutely ruin their business and livelihood.
Any small market vendor living on the bones of their arse will always try to get more money from their daily sales- I saw a bloke under the underpass halfway to the airport last week stuffing sand down the necks of all his chickens with a funnel to make them weigh more before selling them.
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I thought most white dudes in SHV were already pickled in various substances anyway?
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