SANITARY AND ECOLOGICAL CONDITIONS OF BLACK CAVIAR PRODUCTION

Legal caviar is produced in strict accordance with the requirements stipulated by GOSTs 6052-2004 "Pasteurized sturgeon granular caviar", 7368-79 "Pressed sturgeon caviar", 7442-2002 "Sturgeon granular caviar".
A. Raw caviar is taken only from live fish.

B. After the skeins are removed, they are immediately put into processing.

C. The temperature in the caviar shop does not exceed 10°C.

D. Caviar shop workers wear masks and gloves at all stages of the technological process.

E. The requirement for sterility of inventory, equipment and containers is strictly observed during the production process.

F. Clean water, not contaminated with pathogenic microorganisms, is used to wash raw materials and inventory.

Under what conditions does poached caviar get a start in life?
A. Raw caviar is extracted from the belly of a dead fish that has suffocated in the fishing gear, stiffened and lain in this state for a long time, up to several days, until the poacher has the opportunity to check the fishing gear.
B. Of course, there can be no talk of any immediate processing of the skeins after they are extracted from the fish's body.
C. The poacher is unable to regulate the temperature; in summer it sometimes exceeds 30°C.
D. Poachers can use masks, but of a completely different kind - not hygienic sterile ones, but ones that hide their faces from fisheries inspectors and other law enforcement officers.
E. The sterility of inventory, equipment and containers is highly questionable.
F. The water used is the one that is readily available, including water used for watering and bathing livestock, dumping industrial and household waste, etc.

Thus, the microbiological indicators of legal caviar are within the normal range, and the buyer receives not only a tasty, but also a healthy, safe product. Consuming poached products threatens to result in serious adverse health consequences, including severe poisoning.

If you are not stopped by ethical considerations (a conscious choice in favor of illegal black caviar turns you into an accomplice of poachers and thereby contributes to the further prosperity of their "black business", because the main reason for illegal fishing is the stable demand for its fruits), then think about the health risk.