News report by students Kate Stoeckle and Louisa Strauss
Among 60 items tested:
Mislabeled items sold in 6 of 10 grocery stores/fish markets and 2 of 3 restaurants
In a NY Times sequel story, chefs claimed supreme expertise, followed by a Op-Ed “Fish or Foul” highlighting fallible judgment of experts.
Research article reporting NYCFish findings: Wong EHK, Hanner RH, 2008, DNA barcoding detects market substitution in North American seafood. Food Res International 41:828-837.
URL: https://phe.rockefeller.edu/barcode/sushigate.html
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