Salmon Found To Be Mislabeled Over 40 Percent Of The Time

  • 9 years ago
A recent study by the environmental group Oceana has found that, based on the samples it collected during the wintertime, salmon is mislabeled about 43 percent of the time.

When diners order salmon in a restaurant, there’s a good chance they’re not getting what they ordered. 
A recent study by the environmental group Oceana has found that 43 percent of the salmon they gathered from restaurants and supermarkets were mislabeled. 
Based on DNA testing of 82 samples, the most common error, which occurred at a rate of 69 percent, was representing the product as the more expensive wild caught variety when it was actually the farmed Atlantic ki

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