FISH-FIT – Virtual Workshop
FISH-FIT – Virtual Workshop 07 October 2021 SAVE THE DATE! The control of seafood authenticity is an important prerequisite to combat illegal fishing, consumer deception and food fraud, which represent…
II International Symposium on Labelling and Authenticity of Seafood – ISLAS 2021
SAVE THE DATE! The SEATRACES Interreg Atlantic Area project is organising the II International Symposium on Labelling and Authenticity of Seafood – ISLAS 2021, which will be hosted by the…
SYBR-Green real-time PCR assay with melting curve analysis for the rapid identification of Mytilus species in food samples
SEATRACES PUBLICATION Ane del Rio-Lavín, Elisa Jiménez and Miguel Ángel Pardo Abstract: Mytilus spp. mussels are one of the most commonly cultivated species in the European Union, being M. galloprovincialis,…
Quality of frozen hake fillets in the Portuguese retail market: A case study of inadequate practices in the european frozen white fish market
SEATRACES PUBLICATION Rogério Mendes, Helena Silva, Patrícia Oliveira, Luís Oliveira and Bárbara Teixeira Abstract: The overall quality of frozen hake fillets in the Portuguese market was evaluated. Physical, biochemical, microbiological,…
Seafood Traceability and Consumers Workshop 2021
The SEATRACES Interreg Atlantic Area project is organising the Seafood Traceability and Consumers online workshop, which will take place on Thursday 17 June 2021 and will be hosted by the…
A multiplex real-time PCR screening assay for routine species identification of four commercially relevant crustaceans
Christian Brenn, Ute Schröder, Reinhold Hanel, Pedro Martínez Arbizu Abstract: Adulteration or mislabelling of seafood products is a major issue and a problem prevalent worldwide. DNA sequencing-based methods currently used…
Fish out of water: consumers’ unfamiliarity with the appearance of commercial fish species
SEATRACES PUBLICATION Marine Cusa, Luara Falcão, Joseph De Jesus, Cristina Biolatti, Lancelot Blondeel, Fiona S. A. Bracken6, Lisa Devriese, Sandra Garcés‑Pastor, Styliani Minoudi, Chrysoula Gubili, Pier Luigi Acutis, Stefano Mariani…
Fish out of water: consumers’ unfamiliarity with the appearance of commercial fish species
European consumers may love seafood, but they also happen to be quite bad at identifying it. In a study where we asked 720 people from six European countries to identify…
Validation of FASTFISH-ID: A new commercial platform for rapid fish species authentication via universal closed-tube barcoding
SEATRACES PUBLICATION Amanda M. Naaum, Marine Cusa, Maleeka Singh, Zoe Bleicher, Christopher Elliot, Ian B. Goodhead, Robert H. Hanner, Sarah J. Helyar, Stefano Mariani, John E. Rice, Lawerence J. Wangh,…
FASTFISH-ID: A new portable tool to quickly identify fish species
When it comes to identifying seafood to catch instances of mislabelling, one of the greatest challenges pertains to the expertise required to use some of the available forensic tools and…