Fish kill Bangus makeover: Buyers...beware!

[chua_riwap]

iwas muna sa tilapia at bangus......
mahirap na.

gulay at steaks muna tayo.



Bangus makeover: Buyers beware | The Philippine Star » News » News Feature

DAGUPAN CITY, Philippines – Milkfish (bangus) harvested from fish kills in Anda and Bolinao and being sold in wet markets here have none of the tell-tale signs of creeping decay, thanks to a near perfect makeover.

Unscrupulous vendors have been found to have painstakingly applied red dye on the gills of the bangus to conceal signs of spoilage and dupe unsuspecting consumers.

But trained personnel from the City Agriculturist Office, acting undercover, discovered the ruse and alerted police who seized the spoiled goods at the Magsaysay Fish Market, the hub of fish trading in Pangasinan.

City agriculturist Emma Molina told The STAR yesterday it was the first time they encountered such anomaly.

She said the dye slowly faded when rinsed with water.

Another vendor was found to have removed the eyes of deboned bangus. Bangus collected from the fish kills have sunken red eyes.

Authorities confiscated three containers of deboned eyeless bangus. No arrests were reported, but authorities said the “makeover” was a violation of the Sanitation Code.

Two tons of decaying bangus earlier seized here were buried at the city’s dumpsite Wednesday. Nine to 10 tons of bangus from Anda and Bolinao have been barred from being traded here since Monday, according to Molina.

Checkpoints

Pangasinan police chief Senior Superintendent Rosueto Ricaforte has ordered his men to make sure that fish kill deliveries are stopped.

The Philippine National Police (PNP) is coordinating with the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) in its operation.

Last Wednesday, Alaminos City police intercepted an elf truck loaded with around 40 containers of bangus from the fish kill areas.

Molina said every town or city must issue an auxiliary invoice through its municipal agriculturist or anyone designated by the mayor for fish that come from its area and set for trading elsewhere. The Provincial Agriculture Office said in a report dated May 31 that losses to fish kill reached P15.6 million in Bolinao and P25.11 million in Anda.

The fish kill last Sunday was blamed on low oxygen brought about by an abrupt change of temperature due to heavy rains triggered by typhoon “Chedeng.” Dr. Westly Rosario, BFAR center chief in Dagupan City, told The STAR that based on their updated water sampling on June 1, there was significant improvement in seawater condition in barangays Catubig and Awag in Anda towns as well as in barangays Culang and Siapar in Bolinao.

“The remaining stocks are now safe,” he added.

Dagupan City Councilor Jesus Canto said eating affected fish can cause abdominal cramps, itchiness around the mouth and tongue, vomiting, diarrhea and fever.

Prevention

Meanwhile, the government wants local authorities to begin clearing up illegal fish cages around Taal lake to prevent another fish kill.

Presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda said in a press briefing at Malacañang that the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) is preparing to issue instructions to the PNP in Batangas province to begin dismantling illegal fish pens put up in Taal lake based on an assessment report from the Department of Environment and Natural Resources.

The DILG order is in line with an order from the Protected Management Area Bureau in 2009 recommending the lowering of the number of fish pens to 6,000 from an initial high of 14,000.

“Unfortunately, some followed while some disregarded the order and so, as a result, we have this recent phenomenon of fish kill,” Lacierda said.

“(So) today DILG Secretary (Jesse) Robredo will order the Batangas PD (police department) to dismantle illegal fish cages in the municipalities surrounding Taal lake,” he added.

Lacierda said the Department of Agriculture would provide 50 water pumps to help Taal lake produce oxygen. Lacierda disclosed the PNP would also put up checkpoints within the province to prevent the transport of the “double-dead” fish.

“The PNP will be putting up checkpoints in those towns surrounding Taal lake to prevent the double dead fish from penetrating the wet market,” Lacierda said. Some 375 tons of bangus turned up dead in Taal lake last week due to lack of oxygen in the water. With Dino Balabo, Aurea Calica, Cesar Ramirez

[holdencaulfield]

nakakainis pa yung mga tinderang nahuhuli sila pa galit! mga hunghang!

[CVT]

Kaya kami walang biniling bangus at tilapia kaninang umaga.... Matumal din ang benta nila....

13.3K:springsmile:

[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.