(CNN) — The Food and Drug Administration says Chilean salmon is still safe to consume despite a virus that has killed scores of fish.
“We have no information that there is any harm that can come from eating Chilean salmon,” said Ira Allen, a spokesman for the FDA Center for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition.
The infectious salmon anemia virus, known as ISA or ISAV, causes the illness in the fish, but it’s not harmful to humans. The virus also has been reported in locations outside Chile including Norway, Canada, Scotland and the United States, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
More than 60 percent of all farmed salmon imported into the United States was from Chile in 2004 but by 2009 it was down to 30.1 percent, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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