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techno investigates shrimp safety seafood by nature is a high risk commodity for americans love their shrimp but most of it comes from countries that use expensive antibiotics that could make you ill now techno goes inside the federal testing program a market. that's supposed to protect the food supply doctors should use more is mechanical engineer she will share the results of her investigation to how dangerous is that for human beings and i'm still taurus i'm an entomologist i visit a shrimp farm in the middle of india. yes indiana that could revolutionize the industry well this is like a little laboratory here yes it is and a sure cure is santa maria it is a neuroscientist. imagine that you are one of the 1st to take a trip to mars. this is the definition of pioneering that's what makes it exciting
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that's our team now let's do some science. yes. hey guys welcome to techno on phil tours joined by dr shu some are in kara santa maria because i'm not going to one of my favorite things is shrimp soon ruling away on a hot grill but i also have a fair amount of hesitation when it comes to actually knowing where that shrimp comes from then you may not realize it but shrimp raised overseas can have high levels of antibiotics and other additives that don't always pass american safety standards in america imports a lot of shrimp ira 1000000000 pounds worth so we're also the food and drug administration the agency responsible for policing us ports if we can follow them while they test unsafe shipments.
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america has a jumbo appetite for shrimp you know it's a little piece of flesh that they can eat easy it's kind of like popcorn of the sea americans it's an average of 4 pounds pop past a year. at fred 62 you and. chef fred eric serves a lot of shrimp and it's very difficult as a chef or restaurant or to buy shrimp with the confidence that what you're serving them is going to be good try called fresh make sure. americans taste comes with a price. 90 percent of only shrimp eaten in the u.s. is imported. much of it from countries like india thailand and indonesia sometimes trip is raised overseas using production drugs like antibiotics that are approved for use in those countries but not approved for use in the u.s. johns hopkins microbiologist david love surveyed federal data on drugs found in
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imported shrimp some of the top drugs that we found in shrimp were i'm sure if your aunts. and i call tetracycline self on a meds and instructed my son what does it mean for the consumer to be exposed to antibiotic resistant bacteria if you get an infection from these bacteria it can be hard to treat using antibiotics especially if these bacteria are resistant to the antibiotics that your doctor would prescribe these shrimp farms that use antibiotics often farm with overcrowded pom diseases are a big deal in shrimp farming there's a can be a high mortality rate in some shrimp farms. the food and drug administration polices shrimp imports. $5500000000.00 pounds of sea think it is imported into the united states every year
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and much of it ends up in a cold storage facility like this one in southern california but only a tiny fraction of all of that seafood is actually inspected so we've come here today to find out exactly how the f.d.a. . emily morrison is a veteran f.d.a. inspector we've collected one subsample out of 50 brand boxes and now in the process this bag. put them in coolers. and shipped it to the land a computer says. the red flags imports believed to pose the greatest risk based on country of origin and the company's past history of violations seafood by nature is a high risk commodity done so lease heads inspections at the ports of los angeles so there are many boxes here and there will pop full what percentage of the song
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pool gets chosen to be taken to the lab so f.d.a. reviews all electronic transmissions and we utilize things like foreign inspection domestic inspection whether it was sampled and another all that information is gather within the predict application and then that shipment will be given a risk or the higher the risk or the more chances one of these officers will sample that much at. once the f.d.a. inspectors have picked some close friends specs sent to an f.d.a. lab like this one and find california. the raciest for him maybe i'm working. through i can't imagine. that the shrimp powder is mixed with a chemical solvent dried and liquefied again run through and on and.
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is an f.d.a. chemist so kind of the results are in from the tests what are they showing us in this post the compound working for sponsored programs and how dangerous is that for human beings virtual current is dangerous for human beings because its costs. are certain level for now for for this are one building or one cause for this improvement or working for one so. good sized swimming. so how many parts per 1000000000 is this result i was is about $100.00 true cost of building so $2.00 grains and so in the olympic sized swimming pool we need man. to find it and that. is incredible so that is not allowed in this country actually this is not going to be this the f.d.a. simply isn't testing enough on the imported market to really find all of these violet of residues dr rangan headed
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a study of imported shrimp for the june 2015 issue of the influential magazine consumer reports of the $205.00 imported farm samples that we found a leaven of those actually had illegal residues of antibiotics on them that comes out to about 5 percent of the imported farm shrimp samples being contaminated with an illegal antibiotic residue the fact that the f.d.a. only tests about point 7 percent of all the shrimp in this country for those antibiotic residues suggests that the agency is not actually testing enough shrimp to catch the amount of legal residue products that may be coming into the market however many of the countries that export the shrimp permit the use of antibiotics when you feed low levels of antibiotics every day you're not feeding them enough to necessarily kill bacteria those bacteria can become resistant to those antibiotics and that can make those antibiotics less effective in people if we're infected by
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those bacteria just as worrisome was the number of shrimp that tested positive for bacteria we found about a 3rd of the shrimp that we had had vibrio contamination vibrio is one of the few food borne illnesses on the rise 7 of the samples we found had mercy that's concerning to you and that's probably primarily associated with the amount of processing that goes on the shrimp production both have the potential to cause illness through the cooking process they can be killed we do know that there are shrimp farms and shrimp production practices that are doing a lot more to address those issues that are addressing hygiene and addressing. other issues so that they aren't heavily reliant on drugs or other chemicals. 600 miles from the nearest ocean nestled in a patchwork of windmills and soybean and corn fields. indiana.
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a mom and pop indoor salt water shrimp form. their own their over and asked growing now welcomed r.d.f. travis county. carlina and darrell brown accidental shrimp farming pioneers are you going to down 6 pounds with $32.00 dozen basic backyard pools as growing tanks they've perfected an indoor system with 0 waste no chemicals in the 90 percent survival rate. that's a 3rd higher than traditional outdoor shrimp farms well this is like a little laboratory here yes it is in the short form yes it is we do 9 tests every single day we do temperature dissolved oxygen night shy c o 2 salinity alkalinity ph ammonia and flop as you can see our water is brown the test for doing here right now is we're trying to see how much bacteria is in our water and we call this settling so you're basically waiting for all this bacteria to go to the bottom and
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that tells you how much is it how much we have an exact like and for over a certain level then we have to get it out of the tanks otherwise it's going to start suffocating the shrimp that's very important that has to be done every day basically we're not even stripped farmers anymore we ask ourselves guardians of water as long as the water does what it's supposed to be doing the trick to just fine we add no antibiotics no hormones are ever added into our tanks you heard that right no antibiotics no hormones just fish food salts and baking so it's called ahead route trophic by a flock system a process that revolver around bacteria no it looks very grown what is this round that i'm seeing the ground is the bacteria the bacteria. is why they excel their way so that they can survive without a major filter here's what's happening below the surface the shrimp eat their feed and excrete dimona the bacteria turns that into talks ignite traits other bacteria turn that into benign night shrieks and as the waters are rated the nitrates turn
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into a harmless gas and around and around how long have you had this water for years and how does it compare to other short forms most of don't have water that law we by mistake actually kept our water it's like it's maturing it's like one you know the us and we just found out that the older it gets the better it gets and so too for the shrimp the growing process starts every month with about $250000.00 newborns called post larval zz nicknamed. now we're going to show you about r p l's and when they come in they're the size of an eye last so it's hard to see inside this water how many shrimp are actually in here we stock about 17000 each one of my 6 tanks there so what are all these tubes coming down their air lines and that adds the oxygen as their oxygen and keeps everything in suspense and because if this test settles i'll have 20 minutes and then 20 minute by minute let me then everything here seems so precise it has to be it's mother nature will it is mother
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nature but with a lot of help from a mother in indiana i noticed there's foam on top what is this foam foam is mostly c o 2 mixing with their feed that just comes to the top and it will actually disappear so it's part of the process is part of the process. yeah so yes i did get there. this is what you see in the supermarket when you get assurance that place that they can be frozen with ahead of time they're very translucent and one of the characteristics we actually let our minds see the lion's head is men's out when they're happy. and they're in. the shark they're fast if you can see here this is their only protect these man right now face. a very angry if there's a little horn yeah anything unless that means that that's where it started out. you can see it start being. a month later they're promoted to the production team with
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a turn in to dinner. if you have to keep going you would have to. guess. are you saying on the bed. brown so about $500.00 pounds directly to walk ins each month at $18.00 thank you very maggot i think they. will sold their know how to 2 dozen start up forms in the u.s. as well as ones in switzerland and spain and these companies are really innovators they're trying out new technology johns hopkins microbiologist david love studies shrimp production he gives the production like the browns a high grade with one caviar one that could ultimately make or break in the business world a lot of these farms might start out with a bang but then fizzle after a few years because they don't make money for the browns shrimp farming is paying
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off no financial fizzle only sizzle as the business continues to grow as it already is. but the proof of their success is what ends up on the plate and in this case innovation tastes pretty good when served with a profit motive so you would. know i still can't get over the fact that possibly the cleanest and arguably the best shrimp in the world may come from the middle of indiana so i guess i'm. in the table looks a little gross i get that but it's chemistry in there and the green end result is. really good there's a global problem with using a lot of antibiotics in farming the more antibiotics used the more we're going to start seeing antibiotic resistant superbugs it happens in agribusiness here in the us it happens overseas and it even happens in medical practice you know
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a lot of people ask why should we care if there's some superbug that can infect shrimp how does that affect us but what they found is that bacteria can actually swap genes so potentially if the bacteria that infect shrimp becomes resistant it could swap the gene into a bacteria that infects us and so that resistance me passed on and the amounts of you know millions of pounds of antibiotics are being used around the world not just in trim but in cattle in poultry as well that is going to catch up to us when it hits our health care so yeah it's called a it's called a spillover event it's not infection it's an infection that happens in an animal species and then just like that a human can get infected too and it's been the source of most deadly diseases that medicine can't keep up with and that's where you look at the numbers can we have a 1000000000 pounds getting imported here only 2 percent actually gets inspected what about the other 90 percent it's important to have confidence in the system moving forward if we're going to keep eating shrimp and the inspection process missing brandon i mean the amount of shipping they came in bess's will actually
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made it into a lab is tiny care what you have coming up for us next you have really interesting story now imagine that you are one of the 1st pioneers to take a trip to mars but also imagine that you're not allowed to come home it's a one way trip which you guys do at. i met a woman who is already signed up and she's raring to go. for decades humanity has been fascinated with a manned expedition to mars. this is. the definition of pioneering. that doesn't scare here that's what makes it exciting robotic pioneers like mars curiosity rover have been crawling around the cratered landscape uncovering clues. about whether this distant planet can sustain life as we know it do you have the right stuff have the right stuff jamie
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del rosario is a 27 year old entrepreneur and c.e.o. of the international metal source a raw materials company that supplies metals to aerospace companies like space x. and lockheed martin she is one of 100 candidates that has been selected by mars one a private company that wants to colonize the red planet the catch there's no return flight home what do you say to people when they say jamie this is a suicide mission why are you doing it call it as i said mission but it's something that i chose i'm creating my own destiny for myself and and if it's a destiny that would help humanity.
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