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Think You Ate Tuna Sushi For Lunch? Study Finds Mislabeled Fish Nationwide Problem - Forbes
Mislabeled fish: Widespread seafood fraud in the U.S. | Washington Times Communities
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/27/sc...fish.html?_r=0
Mislabeled Fish Affects Your Wallet And Health
Mislabeled fish: On the menu, but not on your plate - Boston.com
Summary of the Oceana Report on Seafood Mislabeling in the US
http://seattlecentral.edu/faculty/kg...-%20Daniel.pdf
Nationwide study casts a wide net over seafood fraud – Eatocracy - CNN.com Blogs
How Common Is Fish Fraud?
84% of white tuna is mislabeled
Between one-fifth to more than one-third of the halibut, grouper, cod and Chilean seabass samples were mislabeled.
Of the 120 samples of fish touted as red snapper, only seven transpired to be the genuine article. An incredible 28 different species accounted for the rest of the samples, with 17 of those varieties not being even in the snapper family.
In New York City, EVERY sushi venue sold mislabeled fish.
In Washington D.C., EVERY snapper sample was mislabeled
In South Florida, King mackerel, a fish on the FDA’s DO NOT EAT list for pregnant women and other at risk groups due to high mercury, was sold as the far less innocuous grouper.