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Federal court upholds Seafood Traceability Rule; targets fraud

By Dan Flynn on August 30, 2017

A new federal plan to combat seafood fraud by requiring the fishing industry to trace their catches from boat or farm to the U.S. border has survived a court challenge.

The Seafood Traceability Rule surfaced…
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Coastal lawmakers call for ‘bait-to-table’ labeling for ocean fish

By Dan Flynn on July 6, 2017

Representative Blake Farenthold, R-TX, has reintroduced a bill intended to cut down on seafood fraud and protect American fishermen. He says his Protecting Honest Fishermen Act would level the playing field for Americans who play…
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DNA Sequencing Helps FDA Project Combat Seafood Fraud

By Lydia Zuraw on July 14, 2015

In the 1990s, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) used proteins to identify seafood, but the profiling method could only match to a standard sample. They had to have frozen tissues from all of…
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Oceana Study: 38 Percent of Supposed Chesapeake Bay Blue Crab Cakes are Fraudulent

By News Desk on April 2, 2015

The Chesapeake Bay’s iconic blue crab is said to carry a distinctly fresh taste that’s prized by locals and tourists alike. But the crab cakes sold as authentically local at some restaurants in the Chesapeake…
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Presidential Task Force Releases Seafood Fraud Final Action Plan

By News Desk on March 16, 2015

fishfraud_406The Presidential Task Force on Combating Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing and Seafood Fraud has released its final action plan for implementing the 15 recommendations issued in December. The plan, unveiled Sunday at the…
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Recipe for Better Seafood Safety Opened to Public Comments

By Dan Flynn on December 17, 2014

Seafood safety, legal fishing, and proper labeling of fish might all benefit from presidential task force recommendations now open to public comments. Scheduled for publication on Dec. 18 in the Federal Register, the “Recommendations of…
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Funding Package Inches Forward

By Lydia Zuraw on December 12, 2014

Unsure whether the congressional spending package referred to by many in Washington, D.C., as the “cromnibus” had enough votes to pass, House GOP leaders delayed a final vote Thursday afternoon, but, after 9 p.m., they…
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Groups Call on Seafood Fraud Task Force to Require ‘Robust’ Traceability

By News Desk on September 3, 2014

Earlier this summer, the White House established a Presidential Task Force on Combating Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing and Seafood Fraud and requested comments from the public to help inform and advise the task force…
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Looking Upstream: Seafood Traceability in a Global Economy

By Gretchen Goetz on May 30, 2013

Early this year, the discovery that horsemeat was being substituted for beef in some European foods triggered widespread concern over food fraud in the EU. This substitution, deemed the “horsemeat scandal,” was eventually determined to…
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Rep. Markey Introduces SAFE Seafood Act to Combat Fish Fraud

By News Desk on March 8, 2013

U.S. Rep.  Ed Markey (D-MA.) on Wednesday re-introduced a new, bipartisan version of a previously-introduced bill to combat widespread seafood fraud “that cheats fishermen and consumers, while posing health risks to pregnant mothers and others,”…
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