GLOBAL EFFORT
Our database currently includes over 27,000 samples. However, sampling effort is highly skewed toward certain products and geographies.
COUNTRIES
Mislabeling has been evaluated in 38 countries. However, two-thirds of those countries include 2 or less studies. The United States (37 studies), Italy (24), and Spain (18) have the most studies, followed by Brazil and the United Kingdom.
PRODUCTS
Sampling effort is highly skewed toward certain products. For example, 57% of all tested products have been tested by a single study, and 50% have been tested just 5 times or less across all studies.
CHALLENGES
When effort is broken down by seafood product per study, average sample size is small. These low sample sizes currently make it challenging to produce useful and certain estimates of mislabeling rates for many products.
For each product, we provide the number of studies and the total number of samples tested for mislabeling, broken down to the country level. Thus, you can determine if a product of interest has been tested in your country, and if so, the number of samples those studies include.
The data, methods, and results presented here have been subject to peer-review and published in the scientific journal Biological Conservation.