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New York City seafood sellers don’t know a tuna from a tilapia. Close to 60% of big retail stores, and 40% of mom-and-pop locations, sold fish that was mislabeled, a new study reveals.
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New York City seafood sellers don’t know a tuna from a tilapia.
Close to 60% of big retail stores, and 40% of mom-and-pop locations, sold fish that was mislabeled, a new study reveals.
The research, by the environmental group Oceana, also found that 100% of sushi bars they tested have hooked their customers on counterfeit chum.
Researchers tested the DNA of 142 fish bought from 81 retail outlets. A whopping 56 samples — 39% — were mislabeled.
“It’s unacceptable that New York seafood lovers are being duped more than one-third of the time when purchasing certain types of fish,” said Kimberly Warner, an Oceana scientist.
All 16 sushi eateries subjected to testing sold customers mislabeled fish.
Oceana staff bought seafood mostly from retailers in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens that were recommended by online reviews from Yelp.
The study showed that 94% of fish labeled “white tuna” turned out to be cheaper pieces of escolar, a snake mackerel whose toxins can have a “purgative effect” on people who eat more than a few bites.
The researchers also found that red snapper and halibut purchased at one small market was actually tilefish — which is on the FDA’s do-not-eat list because of high mercury content.
New York fared better than other major U.S. cities where Oceana tested store-bought fish. In Boston, 48% of the fish was mislabeled, while 55% was mislabeled in Los Angeles
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$50 Million Pepsi Deal for Beyonce
Beyonce has just re-upped her deal with Pepsi, to the tune of an estimated $50 million.
Pepsi is the sponsor of the Super Bowl halftime show, which stars Bey, and has committed to a broad-reaching promotions campaign. She'll also star in one of Pepsi's Super Bowl ads, and her image will appear on select cans of the soda starting in March. The company will also put its muscle behind a number of Beyonce's creative projects, which her rep Lee Anne Callahan-Longo says could include live events, videos, “a cool photo shoot” or almost anything else.
Most of the money will go toward the promotions and events, with the rest being split between Bey's fee and a "creative content development fund."
The Australian radio station responsible for the prank phone call that led to British nurse Jacintha Saldanha's suicide ... is planning to give her family about half a million bucks.
The corporation that owns 2DayFM announced it will donate all the station's advertising profits for the rest of the year to a fund set up to support Saldanha's 2 teenage children and husband.
The company estimates the total donation will be around 320,000 British pounds ... or roughly $500,000.
2DayFM's generous donation comes the day after it pulled the plug on the show that placed the prank call to Kate Middleton's hospital room ... with one of its DJs pretending to be Queen Elizabeth.
Saldanha transferred the call to Kate's room, and was found dead near the hospital a few days later.
