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River Cobbler
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Hiya.. whaen I was in Asda today.. looking for inspiration for tea... I was looking along the fresh fish counter..and saw River Cobbler... never seen or heard of it before.. can anyone tell me what its like...and how to cook it!..Be nice to try something new! Thanks everso.. x
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you may or may not not want to try it - look what I have just found
Watchdog has had several emails about a fish called river cobbler which is on sale at Asda and Tesco. It's also on sale at Sainsbury's where it's called basa. It comes from Vietnam and its proper name is pangasius.
Some of you looked it up on the internet because you'd never heard of it before, and came across all sorts of horror stories claiming it's fill of toxins, such as arsenic, toxic metals and harmful pesticides.
Lauren Antony from Lanarkshire emailed us to see if we could investigate this further and enlighten the nation, so we had a go.
Five tests
We sent a fish we bought in Asda to a lab, where the scientists did five tests to see if they could find some of the things the internet reports suggested they would.
The lab told us they couldn't find detectable levels of any of those substances - which to all intent and purposes mean they weren't there.
Now, as we only tested one fish, we can't say the scare stories are a load of cobblers - but we found no reason why anyone should worry.
The supermarkets say they've done plenty of their own research too, and maintain that they wouldn't sell any product that they weren't confident in anyway.
Watchdog has had several emails about a fish called river cobbler which is on sale at Asda and Tesco. It's also on sale at Sainsbury's where it's called basa. It comes from Vietnam and its proper name is pangasius.
Some of you looked it up on the internet because you'd never heard of it before, and came across all sorts of horror stories claiming it's fill of toxins, such as arsenic, toxic metals and harmful pesticides.
Lauren Antony from Lanarkshire emailed us to see if we could investigate this further and enlighten the nation, so we had a go.
Five tests
We sent a fish we bought in Asda to a lab, where the scientists did five tests to see if they could find some of the things the internet reports suggested they would.
The lab told us they couldn't find detectable levels of any of those substances - which to all intent and purposes mean they weren't there.
Now, as we only tested one fish, we can't say the scare stories are a load of cobblers - but we found no reason why anyone should worry.
The supermarkets say they've done plenty of their own research too, and maintain that they wouldn't sell any product that they weren't confident in anyway.
This part is true as to the pollution of the Mekong as I had comparative results alongside thePearl River that flows down from Guanzhou to H-Kong
Pangas are teeming with high levels of poisons and bacteria. (industrial effluents, arsenic, and toxic and hazardous by-products of the growing industrial sector, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), DDT and its metabolites (DDTs), metal contaminants, chlordane-related compounds (CHLs), hexachlorocyclohexane isomers (HCHs), and hexachlorobenzene (HCB)). The reasons are that the Mekong River is one of the most polluted rivers on the planet and this is where pangas are farmed and industries along the river dump chemicals and industrial waste directly into it
Pangas are teeming with high levels of poisons and bacteria. (industrial effluents, arsenic, and toxic and hazardous by-products of the growing industrial sector, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), DDT and its metabolites (DDTs), metal contaminants, chlordane-related compounds (CHLs), hexachlorocyclohexane isomers (HCHs), and hexachlorobenzene (HCB)). The reasons are that the Mekong River is one of the most polluted rivers on the planet and this is where pangas are farmed and industries along the river dump chemicals and industrial waste directly into it
name rang a bell with me and a quick google gives you variation from this
http://www.jamieolive...iewtopic.php?id=26991
to this
http://www.bbc.co.uk/...ed_river_cobbler.html
Might have remembered name from channel 4 fish week they did recently. Realise links ar'nt recent but they at top of page. You decide!!!
http://www.jamieolive...iewtopic.php?id=26991
to this
http://www.bbc.co.uk/...ed_river_cobbler.html
Might have remembered name from channel 4 fish week they did recently. Realise links ar'nt recent but they at top of page. You decide!!!
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