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DNA barcoding reveals the mislabeling of fish in a popular tourist destination in Brazil.
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- Public health risks related to food safety issues in the food market: a systematic literature review.Environmental health and preventive medicine · 2019Pooled it
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- DNA barcoding reveals global and local influences on patterns of mislabeling and substitution in the trade of fish in Mexico.PloS one · 2022Article
- Product Authentication Using Two Mitochondrial Markers Reveals Inconsistent Labeling and Substitution of Canned Tuna Products in the Taiwanese Market.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
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- Mislabelling and high mercury content hampers the efforts of market-based seafood initiatives in Peru.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- DNA barcoding reveals mislabeling and commercial fraud in the marketing of fillets of the genusHeliyon · 2020Article
- Determining the Authenticity of Shark Meat Products by DNA Sequencing.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- DNA barcoding to characterize biodiversity of freshwater fishes of Egypt.Molecular biology reports · 2020Article
- Exploring the Potential of the Microbiome as a Marker of the Geographic Origin of Fresh Seafood.Frontiers in microbiology · 2020Article
- Marketplace shrimp mislabeling in North Carolina.PloS one · 2020Article
- Ethnotaxonomy of sharks from tropical waters of Brazil.Journal of ethnobiology and ethnomedicine · 2018Article
- DNA Barcoding of Freshwater Fishes of Indo-Myanmar Biodiversity Hotspot.Scientific reports · 2018Article
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Abstract
The consumption of raw fish has increased considerably in the West, since it is said to be potentially healthier than processed fish (for containing omega 3 and 6, essential amino acids and vitamins). However this potential benefit, as well as the taste, value and even the risk of extinction are not the same for all species of fish, constituting grounds for fraud. Using the principles of the DNA barcode we revealed mislabelling of fish in Japanese restaurants and fishmarkets in Florianópolis, a popular tourist capital in Brazil. We sequenced the COI gene of 65 samples from fisheries and 80 from restaurants and diagnosed 30% of mislabeled samples in fisheries and 26% in restaurants. We discussed that frauds may have occurred for different reasons: to circumvent surveillance on threatened species; to sell fish with sizes smaller than allowed or abundant species as being a much rarer species (law of supply); to induce product consumption using species with better taste. It should be noted that some substitutions are derived from incorrect identification and are not a fraud
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