More than 60 per cent of seafood products tested at Montreal grocery stores and restaurants were mislabelled, according to an update of a study that tracks rates of fish food fraud in Canada.
The numbers reflect that this is an ongoing problem,? said Sayara Thurston, a seafood fraud campaigner with Oceana Canada, which conducted the investigation.
In July 2019, the organization tested 90 samples from 50 locations in Montreal and found that 61 per cent of seafood wasn’t as advertised.
A commercial lab in Guelph, Ont., used DNA barcoding to analyze the samples and determine the identity of each species. It found 31 products were a different species than was claimed, 21 were mislabelled and three contained species not authorized for sale in the country.
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