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Rotten mackerel set off explosion
| I dunno if this is a true story or not. Sounds pretty fishy to me... |
 Some workers at a warehouse in Fredrikstad had a mess on their hands last week, after a production mistake caused 1,650 cans of mackerel in tomato sauce to literally explode.| Authorities are floundering for an explanation... |
More than a thousand of these exploded in a warehouse in Fredrikstad, creating a mackerel mess. Canned mackerel filets in tomato sauce are a dietary staple for many Norwegians. While part of the national heritage, the product is also fondly ridiculed at times and nicknamed "plane crash" because of the silvery fish's appearance in the red sauce when opened.Food producer Stabburet always uses a heating technique in the canning process to help preserve the fish, but somehow, the 1,650 cans that blew up missed out. That meant the fish started rotting in the cans, which in turn set off gases that caused the cans to swell until they eventually burst. "It was a highly unfortunate accident," Robert Rønning of Stabburet told VG.
| Whatever happened to the highly-trouted Norwegian safety procedures they're always carping about? |
Posted by: Seafarious 2005-01-24 |
