Françoise Denis – Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle The question of the marketed oysters species remains present for most producers and consumers of these bivalves. Two cupped oyster species are grown on the Atlantic coasts of Europe. Until 2017, they were known as Crassostrea gigas, called Japanese oysters, and Crassostrea angulata, termedPortuguese oysters, both from the…
European Commission has published a pocket guide to the EU’s new fish and aquaculture product labeling regulation (EU 1379/2013) to help to understand the information that is shown in a canned fish or in a frozen fish fillets, for example. This guide explains what information should appear on the labels and what is voluntary to…
LABELFISH – the “Atlantic Network on Genetic Control of Fish and Seafood Labelling and Traceability”, was a research Project under Atlantic Area – Transnational Programme, financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). It aims was to set up a network of entities with an interest in the development of a common strategy and in…