All along the supply chain, vendors often pass off cheaper fish species as their more valuable counterparts. When one fish fillet looks much like another, misidentification and even deliberate fraud are easy. An EU-funded project has pioneered simple DNA fingerprinting techniques that help consumers get the fish they pay for.
The challenge
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