Safe eating

Allowing seafarers to eat fish they have caught off the side of their ship is a sure way for the crew to contract food poisoning and it can take a whole ship out, according to one of the shipping industry’s leading voices on food quality and catering standards onboard ship. This comment by Henry Anderson, Consultant Chef and Founder of Marine Catering Services, followed recent media reports that 14 crew from a Japanese bulker in Canada were hospitalised after they contracted ciguatera fish poisoning which is caused by eating tropical fish that consumed toxin-producing algae.