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Canadian consumers are often being duped when it comes to what fish they have on their plate, according to a new investigation. Nearly one-quarter of fish and seafood sold in Metro Vancouver mislabelled. When consumers buy butterfish or white tuna at a grocery store they may instead receive a fish dubbed “the laxative of the sea” because escolar can cause diarrhoea, vomiting and other stomach problems, according to the investigation into seafood fraud that found nearly half of seafood samples it tested at Canadian grocery stores and restaurants was wrongly labelled.“The results show widespread mislabelling,” said Julia Levin, seafood fraud campaigner for advocacy group Oceana Canada, which conducted the study. It collected 382 samples of snapper, sea bass, sole and other fish that other studies indicate are often substituted. |
