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A high proportion of red snapper sold in North Carolina is mislabeled
Seafood mislabeling occurs when a market label is inaccurate, primarily in terms of species identity, but also regarding weight, geographic origin, or other characteristics. This widespread problem allows cheaper or illegally-caught species to be marketed as species desirable to consumers. Previous...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7321663/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32617188 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9218 |
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author | Spencer, Erin T. Richards, Emilie Steinwand, Blaire Clemons, Juliette Dahringer, Jessica Desai, Priya Fisher, Morgan Fussell, Sloane Gorman, Olivia Jones, Diamond Le, Amanda Long, Kayla McMahan, Cammie Moscarito, Caitlin Pelay, Catherine Price, Erica Smith, Anna VanSant, Allison Bruno, John F. |
author_facet | Spencer, Erin T. Richards, Emilie Steinwand, Blaire Clemons, Juliette Dahringer, Jessica Desai, Priya Fisher, Morgan Fussell, Sloane Gorman, Olivia Jones, Diamond Le, Amanda Long, Kayla McMahan, Cammie Moscarito, Caitlin Pelay, Catherine Price, Erica Smith, Anna VanSant, Allison Bruno, John F. |
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description | Seafood mislabeling occurs when a market label is inaccurate, primarily in terms of species identity, but also regarding weight, geographic origin, or other characteristics. This widespread problem allows cheaper or illegally-caught species to be marketed as species desirable to consumers. Previous studies have identified red snapper (Lutjanus campechanus) as one of the most frequently mislabeled seafood species in the United States. To quantify how common mislabeling of red snapper is across North Carolina, the Seafood Forensics class at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill used DNA barcoding to analyze samples sold as “red snapper” from restaurants, seafood markets, and grocery stores purchased in ten counties. Of 43 samples successfully sequenced and identified, 90.7% were mislabeled. Only one grocery store chain (of four chains tested) accurately labeled red snapper. The mislabeling rate for restaurants and seafood markets was 100%. Vermilion snapper (Rhomboplites aurorubens) and tilapia (Oreochromis aureus and O. niloticus) were the species most frequently substituted for red snapper (13 of 39 mislabeled samples for both taxa, or 26 of 39 mislabeled total). This study builds on previous mislabeling research by collecting samples of a specific species in a confined geographic region, allowing local vendors and policy makers to better understand the scope of red snapper mislabeling in North Carolina. This methodology is also a model for other academic institutions to engage undergraduate researchers in mislabeling data collection, sample processing, and analysis. |
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spelling | pubmed-73216632020-07-01 A high proportion of red snapper sold in North Carolina is mislabeled Spencer, Erin T. Richards, Emilie Steinwand, Blaire Clemons, Juliette Dahringer, Jessica Desai, Priya Fisher, Morgan Fussell, Sloane Gorman, Olivia Jones, Diamond Le, Amanda Long, Kayla McMahan, Cammie Moscarito, Caitlin Pelay, Catherine Price, Erica Smith, Anna VanSant, Allison Bruno, John F. PeerJ Aquaculture, Fisheries and Fish Science Seafood mislabeling occurs when a market label is inaccurate, primarily in terms of species identity, but also regarding weight, geographic origin, or other characteristics. This widespread problem allows cheaper or illegally-caught species to be marketed as species desirable to consumers. Previous studies have identified red snapper (Lutjanus campechanus) as one of the most frequently mislabeled seafood species in the United States. To quantify how common mislabeling of red snapper is across North Carolina, the Seafood Forensics class at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill used DNA barcoding to analyze samples sold as “red snapper” from restaurants, seafood markets, and grocery stores purchased in ten counties. Of 43 samples successfully sequenced and identified, 90.7% were mislabeled. Only one grocery store chain (of four chains tested) accurately labeled red snapper. The mislabeling rate for restaurants and seafood markets was 100%. Vermilion snapper (Rhomboplites aurorubens) and tilapia (Oreochromis aureus and O. niloticus) were the species most frequently substituted for red snapper (13 of 39 mislabeled samples for both taxa, or 26 of 39 mislabeled total). This study builds on previous mislabeling research by collecting samples of a specific species in a confined geographic region, allowing local vendors and policy makers to better understand the scope of red snapper mislabeling in North Carolina. This methodology is also a model for other academic institutions to engage undergraduate researchers in mislabeling data collection, sample processing, and analysis. PeerJ Inc. 2020-06-25 /pmc/articles/PMC7321663/ /pubmed/32617188 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9218 Text en ©2020 Spencer et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited. |
spellingShingle | Aquaculture, Fisheries and Fish Science Spencer, Erin T. Richards, Emilie Steinwand, Blaire Clemons, Juliette Dahringer, Jessica Desai, Priya Fisher, Morgan Fussell, Sloane Gorman, Olivia Jones, Diamond Le, Amanda Long, Kayla McMahan, Cammie Moscarito, Caitlin Pelay, Catherine Price, Erica Smith, Anna VanSant, Allison Bruno, John F. A high proportion of red snapper sold in North Carolina is mislabeled |
title | A high proportion of red snapper sold in North Carolina is mislabeled |
title_full | A high proportion of red snapper sold in North Carolina is mislabeled |
title_fullStr | A high proportion of red snapper sold in North Carolina is mislabeled |
title_full_unstemmed | A high proportion of red snapper sold in North Carolina is mislabeled |
title_short | A high proportion of red snapper sold in North Carolina is mislabeled |
title_sort | high proportion of red snapper sold in north carolina is mislabeled |
topic | Aquaculture, Fisheries and Fish Science |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7321663/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32617188 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9218 |
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