DNA-based methods for Seafood Authentication – Seminar A SEATRACES-Workshop 11th July 2023 Hamburg/Germany The control of seafood authenticity is an important prerequisite to combat illegal fishing, consumer deception and food fraud. In order to examine the correctness of seafood labels and test their accordance with the European regulations, DNA-based methods are commonly applied by control…
Technology centre AZTI has participated in the development of a new genetic method to guarantee the origin of mussels. The study aims to fight fraud and raise consumer awareness of the importance of labelling and traceability of fish products. The techniques developed have been carried out within the framework of the European project SEATRACES, financed…
1st Meeting of Oyster Farmers of the Sado Estuary June 7th 2021 Livramento Market in Setúbal The 1st Meeting of Oyster Farmers of the Sado Estuary took place on June 7, 2021 at the Livramento Market in Setúbal, promoted by Exporsado and the Municipality of Setúbal. At this meeting attended several oyster farmers, such as…
Seafood products: from catch to plate – Seminar 10th November 2021 SAVE THE DATE Station Marine de Concarneau Place de la Croix 29900 Concarneau Seafood traceability is part of the European program SEATRACES in which is involved the Marine Biology Station of Concarneau. This project aims to implement quick and efficient tools for the identification…
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 a serious risk to the economic development of the marine sector in the North Atlantic region. The verification of the correct and mandatory labeling of…
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 Institute of Marine Research of the Spanish National Research Council (IIM-CSIC). ISLAS 2021 will be a hybrid event (on line / face-to-face) which will be…
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 University of Aberdeen. The aim of the workshop is to engage consumer-facing organisations about the latest trends and debates in traceability and to advance our…
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 six commonly consumed commercial fish species, the consumers correctly identified on average about two out of the six species presented. Spanish respondents performed best, with…
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 to the lack of universality of some of the faster easier methods. Many quick and easy portable identification methods are developed to discriminate between a…
The authors of “Development and In-House Validation of an LC–MS and LC–MS/MS Assay for the Determination of Food Fraud for Different Fish Species” show that protein analysis, using LC-MS and LC-MS/MS combined with principal component analysis (PCA) and artificial neural networks (ANNs), can be a valuable tool for fish species identification. In this paper they…