Fish Fraud Still Rampant In Stores And Restaurants
Previous reports have suggested that as much as 20 percent or more of seafood on the market today is mislabeled.
Restaurant owners have been trying to cut costs by serving falsely labeled seafood to their customers. Despite the many rigid rules that exist for trying to prevent this exact problem from happening, they haven't seemed to do much good and today the scope of the mislabeling is large; fish fraud is becoming more widespread.
Not only might customers be getting the wrong species of fish but the terms local and wild caught etc are also being misused.
It's suggested that roughly 1 in 5 fish in the United States are mislabeled.
Needless to say, some chefs are baffled that other chefs would do this, serve a cut of fish that you know isn't what the customer is ordering. If the restaurant is caught doing this there could be great consequences, ultimately they could lose everything if they deteriorate their trust within the market and it's not worth it.
One previous investigation into the extent of the issue found that roughly 1 in 3 businesses might be engaging in this fish fraud today.
There have been several who have been sent behind bars already for this crime.
Despite efforts to try and clean-up the problem for years now, it still persists, with a large majority of seafood samples in restaurants and in stores still allegedly being intentionally mislabeled.
Unbelievable but true... I guess where there is a buck to be made we can expect some humans to always get greedy
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Suppliers and restaurants doing this should be shut down and jailed. Unless the punishment is stiff the 'mislabeling' will continue. Plus, it should be called what it is - FRAUD. Saying it's 'mislabeling' makes it sound like it's a simple clerical mistake. Just comes down to 'anything for a buck'