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Default Cooking fish for infants...

On Apr 8, 11:59*am, bigwheel >
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> > Specially frozen filets. *Salmon, Cod, Basa, Haddock, Halibut, Sole,
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> > My 18 month old eats them all. *We always buy frozen filets, try hard
> > not to buy Chinese (Basa comes from Asia anyways but) but nothing seems

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> > to come from North American waters anymore.

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> > My meat thermometers say cook fish well done between 60C and 65C but I
> > just open two packages I purchased at Price Club that say cook to a
> > minimum of 75C for Haddock and Cod. *One is product is from Alaska USA
> > and the other is from China.

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> > To date my kid has not shown any signs of sickness from frozen filets
> > cooked to 60 or 62 but am I just lucky and should we really be targeting

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> > 75 to 80C?

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> Babies and other humans should not eat fish..especially fish from Asia.
> It's full of mercury and other toxic substances. Now farm raised catfish
> from Mississippi prob be just fine.
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I used to work with the son of an egg rancher. His dad was always
striving for better efficiency. When he learned that chickens excrete
a lot of the nutrients they take in, he excavated under the chicken
houses and put in catfish ponds. Farm-raised, mmm-hmm good!