April 27, 2012 – A week after a Los Angeles study showed most seafood served in restaurants is mislabeled, the Senate Health Committee passed a mandatory seafood-labeling bill pushed by Sen. Ted W. Lieu of Torrance.
“Senate Bill 1486 will help protect public health and the environment while providing consumers a more accurate understanding of the source of the seafood they eat in restaurants,” Lieu said. “The source of much of the seafood Californians eat remains a potentially dangerous mystery.”
In addition, tests on seafood sold at Los Angeles restaurants have revealed that more than half is not labeled correctly, according to a nonprofit environmental organization, Oceana, which conducted the study released last week.
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