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Incidence data – Seafood mislabelling in Asia

12264338893?profile=RESIZE_180x180This review (open access, pre-publication) collates published surveys of seafood mislabelling in Asia (the time period reviewed is not stated).  The authors list results along with the testing methodologies used, listing separate results for China, India, South Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Taiwan.  Some surveys, particularly of specialist fish powders or premium smoked fish products, reported mislabelling rates of 70 or 80%.  More typical mislabelling rates for fillets sold as a single species were around 7 or 8%.

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