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Once someone within the supply chain sells mislabeled seafood, every company or consumer that purchases the mislabeled seafood is a victim of this economic fraud. In certain species, mislabeling can be quite substantial, such as in a 2007 study of red snapper in sushi restaurants in Chicago, where none of the 14 samples of "red snapper" tested ...
The consulting company and groups advocating for fishermen have pushed state legislators to crack down on the mislabeling of seafood, especially shrimp, at restaurants. So far, Alabama and ...
The restaurant will forfeit $1.35 million to the federal government after pleading guilty Thursday to one felony charge of conspiring to defraud customers by mislabeling seafood and furthering the ...
A Mississippi seafood distributor and two managers pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiring to mislabel seafood and commit wire fraud by marketing frozen imported fish as more expensive local species ...
In the case of seafood, adulteration may refer to species substitution (mislabeling), which replaces the species identified on the product label with another species, or undisclosed processing methods, in which treatments such as additives, excessive glazing, or short-weighting are not disclosed to the consumer. [2]
The FDA monitors seafood labeling to ensure that market names used are consistent with those listed in “The Seafood List.” Mislabeling seafood can lead to products being deemed misbranded under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, resulting in enforcement actions such as product seizures or import refusals.
When it comes to eating healthily, fish has a great reputation. Low in saturated fat, high in vitamins, it's known as one of the healthiest meats around. But recent studies show that mislabeling ...
Oceana has led the way on exposing and advocating against seafood fraud. Its opposition comes from the widespread nature of this problem, the negative health impact mislabeled fish can have (especially to people with certain seafood allergies) and their impact on overfishing by obscuring its impact. [20] [21]