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"Accountability lost in murky fish supply chain; Restaurants blame Boston supplier for delivering wrong fish" by Beth Daley and Jenn Abelson |
Globe Staff, December 02, 2012
The $22.95 serving of cod brought to tables, and supplied by
Boston-based North Coast Seafoods, is not always the local product
restaurant executives say they pay for. DNA testing commissioned by the
Globe this summer showed it to be, on that occasion, Pacific cod, which
is usually much cheaper — and to many palates, not as tasty....
The pattern of problems at businesses that buy from North Coast
illustrates a glaring lack of accountability in the poorly regulated
seafood trade. Handshake deals and vague invoices make it easy for
mislabeling — intentional or not — to take place at the expense of
consumers who end up paying more for inferior seafood....
Get used to it, America. It's the new normal of austerity.
North Coast, like other big seafood suppliers, has profited from the
proliferation of chain restaurants, which often prefer to buy fish in
quantity from a single vendor....
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So where you wanna go eat?
"Many Mass. restaurants still serve mislabeled fish" by Jenn Abelson and Beth Daley |
Globe Staff, December 02, 2012
A year after a Globe investigation found restaurants and stores
across Massachusetts were routinely selling cheaper, lower-quality fish
than they promised customers, a new round of DNA testing shows the vast
majority are still mislabeling seafood.
Related: Boston Sunday Globe Stinks
Ken’s Steak House in Framingham again served Pacific cod instead of a
more expensive Atlantic species. Slices of fish sold as
white tuna at Sea To You Sushi in Brookline were again actually
escolar, an oily species nicknamed the “ex-lax’’ fish by some in the
industry because it can cause digestion problems....
Excuse me!
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Also see: Sunday Globe Special: Fishing Around For Profits
And look what else came up in the Globe's fishing net.
UPDATE: Children may get too much mercury
