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Chilean salmon industry welcomes New York Times correction 14 May, 2008 -
The article, published on March 27, questioned Chilean aquaculture practices, including the use of antibiotics. The major US daily published an editor's note yesterday stating that The Times had learned subsequently that Adolfo Flores, an official at the port of Castro, Chile, who identified himself as the port director, was in fact a security guard. Mr Flores had described bags of fish feed stored at the facility by Marine Harvest as containing antibiotics, pigments and hormones. "Had The Times been aware of his actual position at the time, it would not have cited him as an authority on the contents of the bags, which were labelled medicated food," the editor's note stated. The editor added that the article should also have noted that Marine Harvest and industry association SalmonChile deny that they use hormones or that the pigments they use pose any risk to consumers. The story also highlighted the Chilean industry’s ongoing struggles with Infectious Salmon Anemia (ISA), a highly contagious virus that can be lethal to fish but does not affect humans. According to the Patagonia Times, the article caused controversy in Chile, especially when just days after its publication US food retailer Safeway announced it would suspend purchases of Chilean raised salmon. SalmonChile, the industry’s private producers association, said the article contained numerous errors. Yesterday, SalmonChile applauded the New York Times’ correction, saying, “Justice has been done for an industry that was unjustly and falsely attacked”, the Patagonia Times reported. SalmonChile head César Barros praised the newspaper’s decision, saying it effectively withdraws the “principal accusations” included in the original article. www.fishfarmer-magazine.com is published by Special Publications. Special Publications also publishes FISHupdate.com, FISHupdate magazine, Fish Farmer, the Fish Industry Yearbook, the Scottish Seafood Processors Federation Diary, the Fish Farmer Handbook and a range of wallplanners.
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