Personal Injury Law

Fish Not Always What it Seems, According to GAO

By Edward Bills

According to a Government Accountability Office report, seafood fraud is on the increase in part because federal agencies are not acting cooperatively. Some of the examples of fraud detailed include adding water to increase weight, substituting inexpensive fish for more costly fish, and altering labels to show different countries of origin. As an example of where working together would create a safer and more efficient system, the report cited the separate fish DNA libraries being built by the Food and Drug Administration, the Customs and Border Protection and the National Marine Fisheries Service.

Full post as published by Bodily Injury Blog on March 23, 2009 (boomark / email).