date:Sep 12, 2013
salmon, to avoid recontamination before the fish is packaged. A recent study of the smoked salmon industry in Scotland found that, while most processors were using appropriate food-safety practices to prepare their fish, condensation dripping from the ceiling was contaminating the finished product.
If a processor does not use a listericidal control, FDA recommends taking steps to ensure that the fish coming from a supplier is not contaminated in the first place. Insisting that suppliers provid