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US Investigation Finds Majority of Seafood is Labelled Correctly

ANALYSIS – The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released the results of a two year investigation into seafood labelling, writes Lucy Towers, TheFishSite Editor.

The investigation has found that 85 per cent of seafood tested was properly labeled, demonstrating that the problem of mislabelling is not as widespread as first thought.

The FDA also targeted types of seafood most often suspected to be mislabelled. The identified mislabelling was found in two species, snappers and groupers, which represent less than two per cent of total seafood sales…

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