Costco is Just Latest Retailer to Switch to Antibiotic-Free Farmed Salmon (Fish Radio)
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Fish Radio with Laine Welch] July 24, 2015
This is Fish Radio. I’m Laine Welch -- Farmed salmon from abroad is awash with antibiotics. I’ll tell you more after this --
Major U.S. food retailers are getting the message that more Americans want to know what they are eating. And it’s clear that consumers don’t want their foods tainted with hormones antibiotics. That’s prompted CostCo, to turn away from farmed salmon from Chile – the world’s second largest producer - due to its record use of antibiotics to kill deadly bacteria in its net pens. According to Reuters, Chile increased use last year to 1.2 million pounds of antibiotics on production of nearly 900-thousand tons of salmon. That’s a 25 percent increase from 2013.
Costco - the number three U.S. retailer - used to buy 90 percent of the 600,000 pounds of salmon fillets it sells each week from Chile, accounting for nearly nine percent of Chilean exports to the United States. Costco now will buy 60 percent of its salmon from Norway, and 40 percent from Chile...
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