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Practising seafood safety

by Todd M. Rosborough
April 16, 2025
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Practising seafood safety

Microplastics aren’t simply an environmental problem. The tiny pieces of synthetic fabric are also part of a worrying ongoing discussion about food safety not simply in Thailand but the international over. Weeraya Karnpanit, lecturer and researcher from Mahidol University’s Institute of Nutrition, stated that the health-aware worldwide have begun to pay greater interest to microplastics and nanoplastics, especially when it comes to the problem of seafood infection.

Amid the ban and initiatives, a wide range of plastic merchandise is still being used. During the decomposition method, these merchandise damage down and come to be tiny portions of plastic-like micro- and nano-plastics that get into the frame of sea animals, which are later stuck and turn out to be seafood,” said Weeraya.

Seafood infection has been a sizeable meal-protection problem in Thailand on account that forever, for the reason that the countrywide demand for seafood has continuously been on the upward thrust. The 2016 figures from the Department of Fisheries below the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives found out that an average Thai ate up around 33kg of seafood in keeping with year. From 2012-16, seafood intake amongst Thais extended via almost 11%.

In 2015, the Chulabhorn Research Institute’s studies were released, revealing mangrove crabs within the top Gulf of Thailand contaminated with heavy metals. From the angle of Weeraya, who has completed research on seafood from various resources across the USA, marine animals that flourish on the land-sea boundary are highly likely to be infected with dangerous chemical compounds.

Sea creatures that stay on the mangrove surface area an essential environmental indicator because with rain and water washing away stuff as it flows, the soil is where they grow to be. All the chemical compounds and waste accumulate. Shellfish located in mangrove regions have an excessive likelihood of being infected. However, that doesn’t imply clients need to be overly paranoid,” Weeraya stated.

Based on beyond studies and thorough seafood exams, the researcher admitted that all forms of seafood samples accrued were contaminated with heavy metals because those chemical elements exist clearly. What subjects, however, is whether or not or not the infection stage exceeds most limits to the factor that it will become a danger to health.

Seafood-related food hazards may be categorized into three businesses, defined by the researcher. First is a physical change, which means that overseas gadgets can be observed in food and may be harmful, including small rocks, dirt, fish hooks, and different gadgets that may be risky. Physical dangers also consist of the infection of micro-and nanoplastics.

Second is chemical dangers — a hazard resulting from heavy metals and chemical compounds that contaminate seafood either directly or indirectly. Certain activities produce chemicals and heavy metals naturally, which include incomplete combustion in metal industries. However, other circumstances are where chemical substances are deliberately added to seafood, consisting as farmers giving antibiotics to shrimps or fishers soaking what they capture in formalin.

The third sort of food risk added to Weeraya is biological risks, while food is contaminated with microorganisms like germs, viruses, and worms. Seafood available in Thailand has been observed to be impacted by using all sorts of food hazards. However, Weeraya was burdened that the level of chemical or microorganism infection was within the safety threshold.

Take shrimp, for example. In studies of shrimp samples accrued from farms around Thailand, they had been found to have been infected with antibiotics, heavy metals, and microorganisms, yet all inside protection limits. The identical is going for bivalve shells, which had been reported to have been contaminated with heavy metals but again did no longer exceed the most.

Squid samples were also infected with heavy metals, even as dried, salted fish were found to have been contaminated with insecticides. Despite that information, we nevertheless can not generalize that seafood from across us is dangerous,” Weeraya harassed. “The severity of infection relies in large part on various factors, which include the region from which samples were collected, whether they were close to commercial zones or heavily crowded neighborhoods, what the transportation processes are like, and all that. Many elements need to be taken into consideration in terms of seafood infection.

But even though the infection level is inside safety limits, it does not imply that the excessive intake of such infected seafood will do no damage. The accumulation of heavy metals and other unsafe chemical substances can, without a doubt, be adverse to fitness,” Weeraya stated. “The accumulation of antibiotics is likely to cause drug resistance. Too much cadmium within the frame affects the internal organs, consisting of the kidneys, liver, brain, and bones. The accumulation of lead influences the nerve and infant-improvement structures. The accumulation of arsenic may be carcinogenic, even as mercury can affect the mind.”

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I love trying new restaurants and exploring all the culinary experiences that Los Angeles has to offer. I also enjoy cooking for my family and friends when they visit. I have a B.S. degree in Psychology and a minor in Criminal Justice from California State University Northridge. I have been blogging about food since 2007.

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