PSA: intepreting FDA guidance for aquacultured (farm-raised) salmon for raw consumption

There are many redittor wholely claimed (falsedly) oversea farm-raised salmon imported to US is safe for sushi raw comsumption. I did a little research using FDA.gov guidance on this topic.

US farmed fish FDA, Chapter 5 (www.fda.gov/media/80777/download) has no sushi specific guidance, only potential hazard. For farmed salmon, Tables 3-2 listed Salmon, aquaculture as potential parasite hazards, with subject to Chapter 5. Specifically it stated salmon raised in SALTED water (not fresh, river or tributes) and feed “exclusively” pelleted feeds (not suplement with raw fish, waste, planktons or others) = do not have the same parasite hazard (compared to wild). It DOES NOT say farm-raised is FREE of parasites. Chapter 5 covers what considers to be free of parasites.

Chapter 5, lage 92, section Determine Whether the Potential Hazard is Significant, sub-section 1, 3rd paragraph: “You should verify the culture methods used by your aquaculture producters before eliminating parasites as a significant hazard”. 6th paragraph: “If you receive the fish frozen AND have DOCUMENTED assurance from your supplier that the fish are frozen in a way that will kill parasites (method listed), you do not need to identified the hazard of parasites…

Sumary: unless you receieved your fish frozen and documents it is treated for parasites, it is not considered parasite-free for raw consumption unless the packages stated: salt-water raised AND exclusively feed with pellets.

To those claimed FDA allowed Chile random fishfarm northern atlantic salmon package found in a supermarket marked down section that was not frozen, is safe for raw consumption, you give wrong legal FDA guidance.