Do you eat salmon? Fish ban?

Gold Member Joined: Apr 29 2010 Posts: 1026

Has anyone heard of this fish ban due to the anisakis worm? According to my research, OU is allowing all fish as per usual but Star K gives a specified list of fish that are okay. On the list it includes NO salmon, fresh, frozen,or canned, even with a hechshar.

Any thoughts on this? New information? What are you holding?

Diamond Member Joined: Nov 10 2005 Posts: 3401

Posted: Thu, Aug 12 2010, 6:26 pm Post subject: re: Do you eat salmon? Fish ban?

Yes we eat salmon and drink Brooklyn water too. We live on the wild side.
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IIRC the water thing came up when a guy checked supposedly bug free lettuce, so the bugs must have come from the water (no way they came out of the lettuce).. Go figure.

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In the Star-K list it states in their update that you may use canned salmon only if it is mashed. That sounds so strange to me. So if the bugs are mashed it's ok to eat? Scratching Head

Gold Member Joined: Apr 06 2006 Posts: 1492

I had never heard of this, so I googled the parasite.

Yuck.

It can do some really nasty things to your intestines, plus the image of coughing up worm larvae is just gross.

The good news is that it's fairly easy to prevent. Proper cooking or freezing kills it. I now feel better about feeding my family frozen farmed salmon.

Platinum Member Joined: Mar 12 2009 Posts: 13155

I have to admit to going to this website and that to check up on the current "reid" for things like strawberries, etc. but I would suggest with the fish - and this applies to everything really - to ask your local vaad hakashrus. They're definitely on this and can answer your questions.

Platinum Member Joined: Nov 17 2008 Posts: 5047

We don't eat wild, only farm raised, though most US poskim hold that the parasite isn't a problem. Please ask your LOR.
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