U.S. Will Not Allow ISA Salmon Across the Border

Statistics Canada reports that salmon, worth more than $200 million, were shipped to the U.S. from the Atlantic provinces in 2012.

But Morgan Lascinsky of the U.S. Food & Drug Administration said salmon with the virus would not be allowed across the border because American law prohibits the importation of any diseased animal.

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2013/02/01/infected_salmon_declared_fit_for_human_consumption_by_canadian_food_inspection_agency.html

Cooke: Anemia-infected Fish Can be Sold Like Other Farmed Salmon

Chronicle Herald

Feb 4, 2013

Theresa Eisenman, a spokeswoman with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, said Monday that “salmon with the ISA virus should not be entered into interstate commerce in the United States.”

Eisenman cited Section 402 (a) (5) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. It said, “A food shall be deemed to be adulterated — if it is, in whole or in part, the product of a diseased animal or of an animal which has died otherwise than by slaughter.”

Eisenman said “therefore entering a fish with ISA into interstate commerce would be considered a violation of the act.”

http://thechronicleherald.ca/business/636034-cooke-anemia-infected-fish-can-be-sold-like-other-farmed-salmon