Fish product mislabelling: Failings of traceability in the production chain and implications for Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Helyar, Sarah J ^a,d   Lloyd, Hywel Ap D ^a,d   De Bruyn, Mark ^a   Leake, Jonathan ^b   Bennett, Niall ^c   Carvalho, Gary R ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b The Sunday Times   (United Kingdom)

^c Greenpeace UK   (United Kingdom)

^d Environment and Genetics   (Iceland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; MITOCHONDRIAL CYTOCHROME OXIDASE 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC COD; DNA BARCODING; DNA EXTRACTION; FISH; FISH GENETICS; FISHING; FOOD PACKAGING; FOOD PROCESSING; GADIFORMES; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; ILLEGAL FISHING; LAW; MELANOGRAMMUS AEGLEFINUS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEA FOOD; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; UNREGULATED FISHING; UNREPORTED FISHING; ANIMAL; ECONOMICS; GENETICS; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALS; DNA BARCODING, TAXONOMIC; FISH PRODUCTS; FISHES; FOOD LABELING; GREAT BRITAIN;

EID: 84903398850     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0098691     Document Type: Article

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