Mississippi | From today's Mississippi Business Journal e-letter: May 02, 2007Imported catfish contains antibiotics ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — Mississippi Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce Lester Spell has put a stop-sale order on some imported Chinese catfish in Mississippi grocery stores due to the presence of banned antibiotics. Laboratory tests confirmed the presence of ciprofloxacin and enrofloxacin. These are in the fluoroquinlones drug family. The catfish were sold at Save-A-Lot in Pontotoc and Houston, Sunflower Food Store in Quitman and Aultman's Super Value in Forest. Spell said, "Currently, all samples of the foreign catfish tested by the Department of Agriculture and Commerce have shown the presence of a banned substance, and similar laboratory findings have recently been reported in Alabama."
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Mississippi halts sale of imported Chinese catfish after banned antibiotics found
