According to London's Daily Mail, British consumers have been the victims of fraudulent seafood labeling, and in one instance thought they were buying Alaska seafood. Genetic tests conducted by the U.K.'s Bangor University on a variety of retail fish products confirmed that Young's had been passing off a species of Vietnamese freshwater catfish as Alaska pollock. The mislabeled product, called "Flipper Dippers," was the only one of the 30 Young's products found to be mislabeled. Other manufacturers fared worse in the study. Read much more, here.
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Fish fraud: Asian catfish labeled 'Alaska pollock'
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