Brine saturation technique for extracting light filth from canned crabmeat and shrimp: intralaboratory study.

An intralaboratory study was made of a new technique for isolating light filth from canned shrimp and crabmeat. Recoveries of 93.8% for insect fragments and 89.4% for rodent hair plus the brevity and simplicity of the new technique make it superior to the 2 existing official methods for these products.