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Preventing seafood substitution fraud through the development and application of identification methods

Fish fraud - where expensive fish is replaced by cheap alternatives – has become a significant problem, attracting the attention of both scientists and policy makers. The main challenge of the SeafoodTomorrow project is to develop and implement fast and accurate methods to identify fish species, and to perform sound quality controls of marketed seafood products. The project is linked with the new EU legislation on product labeling and adheres to one of the EU priorities to ban food fraud, including fraud in fish and other seafood products.
Fraud with seafood species can be detected via genetic and other molecular methods. However, standardization of methods and markers is necessary, and technologies need to be developed to allow for a fast and uniform identification process in the real world. Moreover, genetic methods are to be further developed for a proper analysis and quantification of different species in complex food samples, such as mixed samples or patés

Date:14 Nov 2018 →  8 Sep 2022
Keywords:Seafood Fraud
Disciplines:Geology, Aquatic sciences, challenges and pollution, Animal biology, Fisheries sciences
Project type:PhD project