Revealed: seafood fraud happening on a vast global scale

Stephen Leahy, The Guardian Fisheries & Aquaculture

Revealed: seafood fraud happening on a vast global scale
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Many of the studies used relatively new DNA analysis techniques. In one comparison of sales of fish labelled “snapper” by fishmongers, supermarkets and restaurants in Canada, the US, the UK, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand, researchers found mislabelling in about 40% of fish tested. The UK and Canada had the highest rates of mislabelling in that study, at 55%, followed by the US at 38%.

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