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New study finds seafood fraud Nationwide

February 21, 2013 by foodsafeguru

Americans are routinely urged to include more seafood in their diets as part of a healthy lifestyle. Yet consumers are often given inadequate, confusing or misleading information about the seafood they purchase. The dishonest and illegal practice of substituting one seafood species for another, or seafood fraud, has been uncovered both in the United States […]

Fish Fraud Criticized By Sen. Barbara Boxer, 500 Restaurateurs

October 25, 2012 by foodsafeguru

by Joe Satran In the past year year, two major reports — one conducted throughout the country by seafood watch group Oceana and the other conducted in the Boston metro area by the Boston Globe — found that a shockingly large share of the seafood sold in both grocery stores and restaurants comes from a […]

Worker cooked to death at Bumble Bee seafood plant in California

October 15, 2012 by foodsafeguru

California workplace safety officials are investigating how a worker at a Bumble Bee Foods seafood plant wound up being cooked to death in an industrial oven. The accident happened Thursday morning at the Bumble Bee Foods factory in Santa Fe Springs, Calif., KTLA.com reported. Police and fire personnel, responding to a 911 call from the business, […]

Seafood Fraud: Study Finds 31% Mislabeled In South Florida

July 25, 2012 by foodsafeguru

A recent study by international ocean advocacy group Oceana revealed that nearly a third of the seafood being sold in South Florida is mislabeled. The study targeted red and yellowtail snapper, grouper, wild salmon, yellowtail and white tuna, as these are fish regionally significant to Florida, and also because they’ve had a history of being […]

Whole Foods: No more red rated seafood

April 24, 2012 by foodsafeguru

As of Earth Day (April 22), Whole Foods Market will no longer carry red-rated wild seafood as a way of supporting healthier oceans and helping to reverse overfishing trends. All of the company’s seafood departments will only feature wild-caught seafood from fisheries certified sustainable by the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC), and green (best choice) and […]