2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29
After the market across Europe was flooded with products in which beef was replaced by horse meat of unknown origin, a new scandal is looming. A large-scale study of the fish products and delicacies offered in stores in Russia, Western Europe and America shows that 40% of the fish offered do not comply with ethics.
The fish scandal that began in Germany has reached Russia. Health authorities in Russia have found striking cases of replacing expensive, quality fish with cheaper counterparts. The exact size of the replacement is yet to be determined in order to calculate the approximate damage this has done to the economy and the pockets of consumers.
An inspection of the origin and quality of the fish offered on the US fish markets showed that 40% of the production had been falsified. For some fish species, such as tuna, the replacement of species with cheaper ersatz substitutes has reached 90% of the quantities studied.
Mass inspections of major European fish markets are expected to make similar revelations. The results of the DNA samples taken during the inspections at the end of March 2013 are still pending.
Only after the data is ready will it be possible to say with certainty how much, in quantity and with what exact type of fish has been sold to mislead consumers in the three major markets - European, Russian and American.
Many experts fear that this will not be the last scandal that will affect the food industry. In the pursuit of quick profits, a number of unscrupulous producers and traders tend to buy and invest in production raw materials and products with not so good documents of origin.
The replacement of beef with horse meat and fish - with cheaper analogues and species, proves that there is not enough strict control over the production and trade of food products. Unregulated or misleading labeled products are an indication that large quantities of raw materials for production are of unclear or dubious origin.
While the problem of replacing beef with horsemeat in the production of sausages and semi-finished products mainly concerned the unscrupulous labeling of manufactured products, in the case of fish things are far more serious.
The health of fish and fish products lovers can be seriously endangered by the actions of unscrupulous traders. The problem is far from just financial, often fish that are sold illegally are actually caught illegally. When there is no document and guarantee of origin of the fish, then there are no guarantees for the health of consumers.
Recall that environmental organizations have long alerted to the problem of illegal dolphin fishing in the Gulf of Japan. In some places in the land of the rising sun, seawater often becomes an arena for mass bloody dolphin fishing. Their meat is sold and illegally marketed, packaged as shark meat, the real price of which is much more expensive.
Fish poachers often allow themselves to be caught in waters that are prohibited for commercial fishing due to the established contamination of the water with salts of heavy metals, radionuclides and other toxic pollutants. The fish caught in this way does not go through a mandatory veterinary inspection, which means that it can be contaminated with various microbes and bacteria, such as salmonella, worm eggs and various parasites.
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