SAN FRANCISCO — August 24, 2012 — Unbeknownst to roughly 30 San Francisco restaurants, researchers from Oceana — a non-profit group dedicated to preserving the ocean ecosystem — have spent the last few weeks collecting samples of their seafood.
As noted on the front page of today’s Chronicle, Oceana is trying to determine whether restaurant are properly labeling the fish they are serving, similar to prior investigations in Boston and Los Angeles. They plan to determine if it’s the same species advertised on the menu, and whether it’s local and wild (as many tout), not from a farm.
It doesn’t bode well for restaurants, as prior investigations in other cities have found that roughly half of the restaurants were served mislabeled fish — 48% fraud in Boston, 55% fraud in Los Angeles.
But San Francisco won’t know the results for another eight weeks, similar to how a failed steroid test in baseball takes a few weeks for the results to be made public. As for the restaurants tested, that’s also unseen at this point, though sharp-eyed readers should be able to determine at least one of the tested restaurants from the above photo.
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