February 22, 201313 yr Active Members From SFGate: Misbranding food for financial gain is illegal under state and federal law. The U.S. Food and Drug Administrationpublishes a guide of acceptable market names for certain fish species,but the laws can be complicated. The agency, for instance, lists 14species that can be labeled "tuna." Oceana has thus far found seafood mislabeling everywhere it has done testing, including Boston, Los Angeles, Miami and Monterey. The group hopes to test fish platters in at least six coastal cities around the country. TheDNA-testing campaign, in which dozens of volunteers are providedtesting kits with instructions and monitoring sheets, created an uproarwhen the early results came out. In South Florida, Shester said, resultsshowed that 31 percent of the fish tested at restaurants and marketswas mislabeled. In Los Angeles, 55 percent, and in Boston, 48 percent of the fish sold was not what it was touted to be, he said. Bad surpriseAcloser look at the results in Los Angeles showed that eight out of ninesushi samples labeled as "white tuna," or shiro maguro, were actuallyescolar, which Shester calls the "ex-lax fish" for its purgative effecton the digestive system. Escolar is not among the 14 species that canlegally be labeled as tuna. Oceana found that 87 percent of thesushi venues tested misrepresented the fish being served, the worstrecord of any type of restaurant. Thirty-one percent of grocery storesmisidentified fish, Shester said. One of advocates' biggestconcerns is the unadvertised use of shark meat in fish tacos, Shestersaid, because, among other reasons, sharks often contain highconcentrations of mercury. Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Oceana-targets-fishy-labeling-practices-3811735.php#ixzz2Lf5ikMke
February 22, 201313 yr Active Members Unregulated capitalism at work. Have you kept up with the horse meat scandal in the UK?
February 22, 201313 yr Active Members Another reason to be a raw vegan. As long as don't expect that your organic vegetables be organic more than 37% of the time.
February 22, 201313 yr At least I know it is genuine at my favorite sushi place in SoCal which has the best sushi I've ever had any where and that includes my many trips to Japan.
February 22, 201313 yr At least I know it is genuine at my favorite sushi place in SoCal which has the best sushi I've ever had any where and that includes my many trips to Japan. I'm not a fish fancier. Would never eat it voluntarily. Especially sushi. The very thought of eating raw fish curdles my blood.
February 22, 201313 yr Author Active Members At least I know it is genuine at my favorite sushi place in SoCal which has the best sushi I've ever had any where and that includes my many trips to Japan. But isn't the point that the customer doesn't know that he isn't getting what he is told he is? The restaurant itself might not know.
February 23, 201313 yr Active Members Fish may be a large group of mis-identified food but escargot may the largest single item that is mis-labeled. Best regards, RA1
February 23, 201313 yr Author Active Members I know my escargot is always mislabeled. It says ground sirloin on the package, but the bf assures me it is escargot.
February 23, 201313 yr I'm confuse do you have a husband or bf, Lucky. Do you have both?! Oh my you are really Lucky..
February 23, 201313 yr Fish may be a large group of mis-identified food but escargot may the largest single item that is mis-labeled. Best regards, RA1 Although in truth I've never seen an escargot much larger than an inch across. Unless the mislabeling goes in the opposite direction?
February 23, 201313 yr Author Active Members I'm confuse do you have a husband or bf, Lucky. Do you have both?! Oh my you are really Lucky.. He is both.
February 23, 201313 yr Aww you are the Luckiest man.. A husband who is still romantic and fresh enough to be called a bf.. I need to get some lessons from you...
February 23, 201313 yr Active Members Although in truth I've never seen an escargot much larger than an inch across. Unless the mislabeling goes in the opposite direction? I think it fits into a group with giant shrimp. Best regards, RA1
February 23, 201313 yr Author Active Members Unregulated capitalism at work. Have you kept up with the horse meat scandal in the UK? Is Bird's Eye a horse's ass for selling horse meat? http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/23/business/global/23iht-horse23.html?ref=todayspaper
February 24, 201313 yr Active Members Not much on fish, but I think horse meat, properly served up, can make for a tasty meal.
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