date:Dec 14, 2012
with some species but not others, presenting potential food safety risks if the food is not accurately labeled.
While it is possible that mislabeling fish could mean that an at-risk consumer eats the wrong fish, seafood fraud does not generally pose a major public health threat, says Ken Gall, a Seafood Technology Specialist at for the New York Sea Grant at Cornell University Extension.
Subbing one fish for a similar type of fish such as tilapia for snapper is relatively harmless, he says,