26% of seafood products found to be labelled wrongly: NUS study

Among the samples the researchers collected, the most common items with the wrong labels include sablefish , patagonian toothfish and iridescent shark .

The research — published on the academic journal Food Control and made available to the public on Jan 10 this year — was authored by Yale-NUS student Sean Neo, as well as Assistant Professor Wainwright and Dr Caroline Kibat from the college's division of science. They said that 96 per cent of Singapore's seafood products are imported, and most are sold in supermarkets processed and pre-packed. The rest produced in the country, which tend to be of higher value and are not frozen or processed, are shipped to local restaurants.

"These differences highlight the need for a standardised and repeated sampling strategy to fully understand the incidence of mislabelling and the impact that any policies designed to mitigate this practice have," read the study.The authors noted that seafood mishandling is garnering more attention due to its potential to negatively impact consumer health.

To meet the growing demand for cheaper seafood, the researchers said that accidental cases of mislabelling are unavoidable and seafood fraud could worsen over time.

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