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Old Feb 16, 2011 | 7:55 pm
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Originally Posted by SFflyer123
<snip>I mean, in Sushi, you need sushi-grade fish; you just can't buy the $5.99 salmon wrapped in plastic at safeway and eat it raw.<snip>
Just to go a bit off topic and challenge this statement... what is "sushi-grade" fish? The limited research I've done is that there isn't a very good definition what "sushi-grade" is and that it's more of a marketing term than a term relating to food safety or regulation.
I'm not 100% sure but I would care to guess that that $5.99 salmon wrapped in plastic at Safeway is safely eatable raw as long as you follow guidelines to kill potential parasites in it (ie. Freeze it for a few days). Might or might not taste that great but it shouldn't give you the runs if you eat it raw.
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