Fish kill Bangus makeover: Buyers...beware!

[tidus1203]

Maskin kaya sa mga supermarkets aabot mga yan or sa wet markets lang?

[desert fox]

kabibili ko lang kahapon ng tig-1kg na bangus at plapla....

[vito corleone]

me mga tao talagang walang konsensya, basta kumita lang sila

[desert fox]

me mga tao talagang walang konsensya, basta kumita lang sila

onli in da Pilipens...

nakakahiya, bochang babuy, bochang isda,NFA rice, hinayaan lang mabulok.....wala na talagang kunsensya mga tao ngayon...

[Monseratto]

Hmm...must be a sign.

Sa Europe, takot lahat kumain ng raw vegetables, especially cucumbers..

Can be fatal or debilitating yung sakit if you eat taitnted vegetable, such as kidney failure.

Baka gayahin na naman dito.

Vegetable scare hits Europe

BERLIN --
Schools have pulled raw vegetables from menus, piles of cucumbers sit untouched on shop shelves, and farmers say they're losing millions.

As scientists scramble to find the source of an E. coli outbreak linked to raw vegetables that has killed 18 in Europe and sickened nearly 2,000, consumers are swearing off lettuce, cucumbers and tomatoes just in case.

"Cook it or don't eat it," Hamburg kidney specialist Rolf Stahl told reporters at a press conference about the epidemic on Friday. "That's my personal recommendation."

Consumers from the northern German city of Hamburg _ the epicenter of the outbreak _ to Bulgaria, Spain, France and Sweden were worried about which vegetables and fruit they could still eat and what they should avoid.

"We no longer offer cucumbers, people just won't buy them anymore," said Mehmet Tanis, a vegetable vendor at Berlin's busy weekly market in the city's Kreuzberg neighborhood, who says his weekly profit is down euro1,000 ($1,450).

"They're completely scared to get sick _ even though we always get our cucumbers from Jordan. We're also selling 80 percent less lettuce, and only half the tomatoes."

Most of those sickened say they ate vegetables beforehand. But without being able to pinpoint the source, German health authorities have issued a broad warning to stay away from all tomatoes, cucumbers and lettuce.

Hamburg officials initially suspected cucumbers from Spain after three samples tested positive for E. coli, but later tests showed they were infected with a different strain of the bacteria than the one behind the outbreak.

Nevertheless, the jitters have devastated the Spanish produce industry.


The current outbreak is considered the third-largest involving E. coli in recent world history, and it is already the deadliest with at least 17 dead in Germany and one in Sweden. Twelve people died in a 1996 Japanese outbreak that reportedly sickened more than 9,000, and seven died in a Canadian outbreak in 2000.

Among the 1,733 people sickened in Germany, 520 suffer from a life-threatening complication that can cause kidney failure.

Nine other European nations have reported a total of 80 people sick from the bacteria, most of whom had recently visited northern Germany, the World Health Organization said.

Russia on Thursday extended a ban on vegetables from Spain and Germany to the entire European Union to try to stop the outbreak spreading east, a move the EU quickly called disproportionate and Italy's farmers denounced as "absurd." No deaths or infections have been reported in Russia.

To calm worried customers, some bistros and restaurants in Berlin started putting up posters explaining to customers they are only offering "safe produce."

Across the country, schools, kindergartens and nursing homes took all raw vegetables off menus until further notice and in the western German city of Hagen, an elementary school was closed Friday after a student fell ill with E. coli.

In Austria, medical experts even went so far as to warn local football fans attending Friday's European football qualifier against Germany in Vienna to take extra precautions to avoid infection.

Michael Kunze, a doctor of social medicine in Vienna told the Austria News Agency that Austrian fans should wash their hands well and consider using disinfectant to avoid any possible transmission of the E. coli bacteria from the Germans saying "it can't be ruled out."

The news about tainted cucumbers in Germany even scared people as far away as Bulgaria where locals hesitated to buy the popular vegetable even when vendors offered proof the produce was from local farmers.

Market prices dropped five- to tenfold and on Friday cucumbers on some open markets in Sofia were traded as cheaply as 10 euro cents per pound.

[chua_riwap]

yung iba...para di halatang botcha yung bangus....dinadaing na lang, then ibibenta.
talagang ipinipilit pang pagkakitaan.

kaya iwas muna tayo. isdang dagat muna bilhin.

[chua_riwap]

kabibili ko lang kahapon ng tig-1kg na bangus at plapla....

nasa pinas ka ba ngayon?
dito naman sa saudi yung nabibiling bangus dito galing daw taiwan.

[desert fox]

nasa pinas ka ba ngayon?
dito naman sa saudi yung nabibiling bangus dito galing daw taiwan.

Dito pa ako...oo bro, galing taiwan ang bangus at galing Egypt yung plapla...

kapag tilapia(maliliit-galing na lang sa irrigation dito-huli ng mga pinoy-binebenta sa mga tindahan ng isda...)

[chua_riwap]

Dito pa ako...oo bro, galing taiwan ang bangus at galing Egypt yung plapla...

kapag tilapia(maliliit-galing na lang sa irrigation dito-huli ng mga pinoy-binebenta sa mga tindahan ng isda...)

ha-ha! tama ka. yang mga tilapia, dito lang galing yan, sa mga irrigation, talu-talo na.

BTT
yun ngang botchang bangus, itinigil na rin sa mga pakain sa mga buwaya.....tapos itong mga walangiyang tindera, ipipilit ibenta, tapos papakain sa mga tao?

[holdencaulfield]

Maskin kaya sa mga supermarkets aabot mga yan or sa wet markets lang?

para safe huwag muna bumili ng isda.
si esmi nga nakabili sa hypermart ng bulok na pusit. pumayag naman silang i-refund. pero hassle nga lang ang pag-sauli.