FARNHub
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| Title : | Switch and chips: 20 percent of fish are purposely mislabeled |
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| Source : | The Washington Post |
| Year : | 2016 |
| Link : | https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/09/09/switch-and-chips-20-percent-of-fish-are-purposely-mislabeled-sometimes-dangerously/?utm_term=.9a60b61eea27 |
| Country : | United States of America |
| Commodity: | SE-Fish and fish products |
| Abstract: | In the bizarro world of seafood fraud, a fish is not always what it seems. When sold in Brazil, largetooth sawfish — a species classified as critically endangered — becomes anonymous “shark.” When sold in a certain Santa Monica, Calif., sushi shop, illegal whale meat became fatty tuna. (The restaurant has since shut down.) And when sold across the United States, cheap Asian catfish becomes one of 18 types of white fish fraudsters want it to be, according to a recent report. |