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November 11, 2009 by admin
At the fish counter you may not get what you pay for – A cross-country DNA probe shows a quarter of fresh and frozen samples were not as advertised
By Susan Sampson Toronto Star
Consumer, beware: When you’re buying fish, you may not get what you pay for.
In a cross-Canada investigation, fish sold as wild Pacific salmon turned out to be farmed Atlantic salmon. Sea bass was actually endangered Patagonian toothfish, marketed as Chilean sea bass, which is a different species. Cheaper skipjack was substituted for sushi grade tuna.
