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US FDA team in Chile to inspect salmon industry

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A team of US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officials arrived Friday in Chile where over the next several days they will conduct on-site inspections of the country’s once-booming salmon industry.
Sources close to the Patagonia Times revealed that the FDA will visit five specific sites and will be testing for Malachite Green -a fungicide thought to be carcinogenic- as well as four different kinds of Flouroquinolones (antibiotics). In addition, the FDA plans for the first time to test Chilean salmon for Crystal Violet, also a fungicide. In late 2006, health authorities in Great Britain detected Cyrstal Violet in a shipment of Chilean salmon exported originally by industry leader Marine Harvest.

What is not clear is whether the FDA visit is a routinely scheduled event, or if it comes in response to recent media coverage raising questions about the relative health of Chilean salmon.

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