Mislabelled hake in Spain and Greece

24 March 2011

DNA studies carried out by a team of Spanish and Greek researchers, and published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, show that more than 30% of the hake products sold in Spain and Greece are wrongly labelled. This error could be due to confusion during the marking of fish in distribution centres, but it is curious that the 'cheap' African hake are the ones that are labelled as the 'expensive' European or American species, and not the other way around, which is why the study suggests that fraud is being committed.
More information from EurekAlert: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-03/f-sf-a4o031111.php