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Article: FDA scrutiny threatens China's huge seafood industry.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
- Article date:
- June 30, 2007
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Byline: Evan Osnos and David Greising
TAOYU, China _ This tiny village near the Great Wall is crowded with 20 household trout farms, which have cropped up in less then a decade to join China's booming seafood trade.
Yet, in a tale mirrored across the industry, the local water supply could not keep pace and fish began dying from contamination, said fish-farmer Liu Yanyan. She turned to traditional Chinese medicine to save her trout, she said, while some neighbors resorted to antibiotics and other chemicals.
In trying to protect their business, China's fish farmers may have fueled a far larger problem: China's seafood industry, the world's ...