Food safety for sea food

Answer 1

Sea food should be fresh to eat. The smell of the product should be simular to the small of the sea and NOT a fish smell as this is cause by the product starting to show signs of deteriation. With fish you will see a link gill in fresh meat and not discoloured.

Fish products should be kept at about 4 degrees to maintain its freshness.

Sea food should not be consumed if its caught in polluted water, this can and does generate a cross contamination to the food chain.

Some sea food products when cuaught must be prepared very carefully i.e. the removal of dead mans fingers in crabs is very important as is the removal of waste from all shell fish.