Acronym NA
Category
Aquaculture
Title Nasjonal undersøkelse av forekomst av Anisakis i norsk oppdrettslaks - National survey of the occurrence of Anisakis in Norwegian farmed salmon Programme National Programme
Instrument (FP6)
Contact Type (FP7)
Strand (Interreg)
NA
Theme (FP7)
Activity Area (FP6)
Regional Area (Interreg)
Action (COST)
NA
Specific Programme (FP7)
NA
Funding source National Coordinator Arne Levsen Coordinator email ale@nifes.no
Coordinator institution
NIFES - National Institute of Nutrition and Seafood Research (Norway)
Institutions involved
IMR - Institute of Marine Research (Norway) ,
Start year 2013 End year 2015 Funding (€) € 423,162 Website https://www.fhf.no/prosjekter/prosjektbasen/900846/ Summary Parasites are common in wild fish from temperate seas. This is particularly true for the larvae of certain parasitic roundworms (nematodes), with Anisakis simplex as the most important species. A. simplex and some of its siblings can cause acute gastrointestinal illness if accidentally eaten alive. The nematode dies, however, by freezing, frying, boiling or strong salting for extended periods. In Norway, farmed Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) has long been exempted from the so-called freezing requirement since the risk that farmed salmon contain nematodes was considered negligible. This was based on the assumption that the parasite's life cycle is broken as long as the salmon is exclusively fed on heat-treated dry feed. The Norwegian Food Safety Authority (NFSA) wants to continue the freezing exemption for farmed salmon in a new national regulation. It lacks, however, updated documentation showing that fresh salmon fillets do not represent a health hazard with regard to the presence of nematodes. Due to the NFSA work on the new national regulation, in addition to the industry's need for updated knowledge about the possible occurrence of nematodes in fresh and market ready salmon, new comprehensive documentation of the nematode situation in farmed Atlantic salmon in Norway will be obtained in the project.
To establish the epidemiological baseline with regards to the occurrence of Anisakis in Norwegian farmed salmon as the basis for the re-evaluation of the exemption from the freezing requirement before raw or semi-raw consumption.
Keywords
Salmon;
Fish;
Open sea aquaculture;
Cage aquaculture;
Parasite;
Marine Region
41
Norwegian Sea (27.IIa)
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