Seattle Pacific University researchers found about one-third of samples from sushi restaurants contained different types of salmon than advertised.
SEATTLE — Washington state vendors are required to properly label salmon, but a new study out of Seattle Pacific University found this isn’t always happening.
Around one-third of salmon sampled from local sushi shops were marked as wild, but were actually farm-raised, according to researchers.
“One of the most surprising pieces of information that we learned from this study was the wild-to-farm mislabeling rate,” SPU Biology professor Tracie Delgado said.
Researchers tested salmon samples from 67 grocery stores and 52 local sushi shops.
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