Talk about identity theft. A conservancy group says its tests found that one in five seafood samples from Boston supermarkets were mislabeled.
“We went looking for seafood fraud in Boston and we found it,” said Gib Brogan, Northeast representative for Oceana, an advocacy and conservation organization. “The results are troubling. Consumers are frequently getting something other than what they paid for. Seafood mislabeling is ripping off consumers, while potentially endangering their health and harming our oceans.”
Brogan said that early this spring, Oceana targeted 15 supermarkets in and around Boston that are owned by three popular grocery store chains. Oceana attempted to purchase two (frozen or fresh) fish fillets of three commonly mislabeled species – red snapper, wild salmon and Atlantic cod – from each supermarket.
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