{"id":7992,"date":"2012-04-26T07:46:10","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T14:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/?p=7992"},"modified":"2012-04-26T07:46:10","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T14:46:10","slug":"supervisors-call-for-report-on-mislabeled-seafood-sold-in-restaurants-and-grocery-stores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/?p=7992","title":{"rendered":"Supervisors Call For Report On Mislabeled Seafood Sold In Restaurants And Grocery Stores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Press Release posted 4\/26\/12 &#8211;<\/em> Approved unanimously by the Board of Supervisors, a motion by Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich directed the Department of Public Health to work with Federal and State agencies to address seafood mislabeling in Los Angeles County.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConsumers must have confidence that the fish they are buying at restaurants and grocery stores is safe and labeled correctly,\u201d Antonovich said.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, Oceana, a non-profit organization, ran tests on seafood sold at sushi venues and grocery stores in Los Angeles County and found that more than 50% was not labeled correctly.<\/p>\n<p>Every single fish labeled as \u201csnapper,\u201d was a different fish, and 9 out of 10 sushi samples were mislabeled.\u00a0 In fact, 8 of 9 sushi samples labeled as \u201cwhite tuna\u201d were actually \u201cescolar\u201d \u2013 a species that carries a health warning for its laxative effects.<\/p>\n<p>The types of fish most frequently mislabeled were more expensive varieties including red snapper, white tuna, yellowtail, flounder, and sea bass.\u00a0 While less expensive fish such as, albacore, blue fin tuna, flounder and sockeye salmon were all labeled properly.<\/p>\n<p>Antonovich\u2019s motion also calls for an assessment of the feasibility of Los Angeles County Public Health\u2019s use of the FDA\u2019s specialized laboratories for testing local samples of imported fish and a report back to the Board in 15 days on actions that are being taken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press Release posted 4\/26\/12 &#8211; Approved unanimously by the Board of Supervisors, a motion by Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich directed the Department of Public Health to work with Federal and State agencies to address seafood&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,46],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7992"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}