July 17, 2013 — Oceana, an international organisation focused on ocean conservation, recently conducted a study of commercially available seafood, testing pieces of fish to see if they were actually the fish they were being sold as.
It tested DNA from fish samples purchased at restaurants, markets, and grocery stories, and found that one-third (33 per cent) of the 1,215 samples analysed nationwide were mislabeled, according to U.S. Food and Drug Administration guidelines.