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One in Five Fish Products Tied to Fraud - Inside Climate News

10d 8h ago by sopuli.xyz/u/supersquirrel in aboringdystopia from insideclimatenews.org

The report—which provides the first global baseline of industry-wide wrongdoing—defines fish fraud as the deliberate deception regarding species specification for unfair economic advantage. Produced in collaboration with the International Atomic Energy Agency, the report highlights how novel nuclear forensic tools might be the solution.

Handheld X-ray devices can establish the composition of seafood tissue by identifying chemical markers unique to certain environments, while MRI technology can analyze water molecules to verify if a product has ever been frozen.

Malpractices include coloring tuna to appear fresher and false sustainability claims. The most common form of fraud, however, is substitution of expensive fish products with cheaper alternatives.

Just because you see-food doesn't mean it is-food.

You think you're eating c food but you're really eating d food

We would all realize that but we are too distracted by the e food

Who put the d in my food?

We as a species need to calm our appetite for fish, we are decimating our ocean life without a second thought.

Same at it ever was.

After the money's gone

Once in a lifetime

Fish flowing underground