Buying seafood should be as easy as tossing it into the shopping cart but misleading labels are turning your trip to the grocery store into a guessing game. Three of Canada’s major grocery chains across the country distribute seafood product to thousands of Canadians each year that are mislabeled, and in some cases, threatened species.
How much do consumers know about the food they’re buying? Not as much as they could. Interview Erica Johnson, host of CBC Television’s consumer investigative show Marketplace about her investigation of mislabeled seafood. As part of Erica’s investigation over 150 fish products from around the country were tested using state-of-the-art facilities at Guelph University and revealed that what consumers are paying for, isn’t what they’re getting.
Canadians can watch Erica’s investigation when Marketplace airs Something’s Fishy on Friday, April. 2 at 8:30 p.m. on CBC-TV.
