Weakness in Global Food Supply Chains
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25 Mar 2013 - 18 Jan 2016
In the U.S., the nonprofit group Oceana recently confirmed that a large share of the fish in groceries and restaurants is something other than what it is sold as. Researchers did DNA tests on more than 1,200 fish samples in 14 metropolitan areas and found a third to be mislabeled. Red snapper was misrepresented so often that the researchers were at pains to find the real thing; of 120 samples, 113 were a different fish.
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