Is It dangerous To Eat Fish?

ONLINE MEDIA STATEMENT
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We would like to convey the following:

1. Normally, it would be a healthy diet practice to eat lots of fish. However, of late we have been hearing many people say that the fish in our Malaysian markets and shops are laced with a dangerous chemical.

2. This chemical is called formaldehyde. It is popularly used to preserve dead bodies. This chemical is known to be linked to a cause of cancer. The complaints of people are that fishermen use this chemical and inject it into the fish to preserve it from going bad faster.

3. Among the ways to identify this chemically-laced fish are that we can see it appears lustrous and fresh and flies would not even want to come close to this fish, let alone feed on them. In fact, we stumbled upon this case last Sunday 31-Aug-08 when we suspected the hard tail mackerels ('cencaru') in one of the TESCO hypermarkets in the Northern Region looked like they have been spiked. After 'X-raying' these fish, we confirmed that they were indeed chemically-laced with formaldehyde.

4. We strongly urge the Government to take appropriate actions to curb this unhealthy and unsafe practice among fishermen, especially from Thailand. Also, fish distributors and retailers should not sell these chemically-laced fish to the citizens of Malaysia by sacrificing the health of the people with just mere profits.

End Statement.

Best Regards.........