Importer's mislabeled Asian Catfish was ‘Key West grouper’ in name only
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Tom Katz was scrambling for a cover story.
The Burlington fish broker faced tough questions from executives at T.G.I. Friday’s. Why was the grouper they received from Katz rubbery and pink, rather than the typical firm, white fish?
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PART II - Boston Globe investigates mislabeled fish: From sea to sushi bar, a system open to abuse
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A Globe investigation detailed yesterday found that mislabeling of certain fish is endemic in the Boston area. DNA testing showed that 32 area restaurants that serve sushi - including Takara Sushi in Newton, Basho Japanese Brasserie in Boston, and Kowloon in Saugus - sold misnamed fish. For instance, tilapia stood in for red snapper, and farmed hybrid bass was identified as wild striped bass.
Overall, the testing revealed that nearly half of 183 fish samples collected at restaurants and supermarkets were not the species ordered.
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Part I - Boston Globe investigates mislabeled fish: On the menu, but not on your plate
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The Globe collected fish from 134 restaurants, grocery stores, and seafood markets from Leominster to Provincetown, and hired a laboratory in Canada to conduct DNA testing on the samples. Analyses by the DNA lab and other scientists showed that 87 of 183 were sold with the wrong species name - 48 percent.
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Tainted seafood reaching American tables, experts say
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Filthy seafood infected with bacteria or tainted with drugs and
antibiotics banned in the U.S. is finding its way onto the plates of
Americans, according to state and federal officials, consumer advocates,
academics and food safety experts.
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Roadmap to your child’s brain
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Parents can have a lot of impact on their child’s developing brain --
from conception through college -- but not in the ways they may think.
In fact, many of us do a lot of wrong things in attempting to cultivate
our little geniuses IQ’s by sitting them in front of a Baby Einstein
DVD, for example. And we skip some right ones, like eating fish when
we’re pregnant because we’re afraid of the mercury content.
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