Month: July 2013

Thanks to the efforts of school chefs, dozens of regional fishermen, and Peter Pan Seafoods, wild-caught sockeye salmon is now a staple in schools. Last week, Peter Pan loaded a truck with more than 6,000 pounds of fillets bound for school lunches. The abundance of fresh fish is delivered free of charge to the school district courtesy of the Fish for Kids program, a salmon donation program implemented by Peter Pan, a Seattle-based company that has run a processor in Dillingham for more than a century. …

Marine Harvest USA, the U.S. subsidiary of a Norwegian company that offers farmed salmon and processed seafood to customers in more than 50 markets worldwide, signed a five-year lease on 40,000 square feet in the Beacon Centre. …

Lipari Foods of Warren, MI is recalling Wholey peeled, cooked, tail-on 31/40 count shrimp, because it has the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella, an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. Healthy persons infected with Salmonella often experience fever, diarrhea (which may be bloody), nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain. In rare circumstances, infection with Salmonella can result in the organism getting into the bloodstream and producing more severe illnesses such as arterial infections (i.e., infected aneurysms), endocarditis and arthritis. …