Salmon is being replaced by trout in half of fish products in Russia

Published 2024년 10월 27일

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Russian fish processors are cutting costs by replacing salmon with trout in half of their fish products, according to Ilyas Adiatulin, Deputy Director of the National Center for the Safety of Aquatic Products and Aquaculture. The fraudulent replacement is found in deeply processed products like rieta, and there are concerns about the substitution of cod with cheaper fish like pollock. However, no such violations have been identified in canned saury this year, after they were found in every third can in the past two years.

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Russian fish processors substitute salmon with cheaper trout in 50 percent of their fish products. This data was given in an interview with Agroexpert by Ilyas Adiatulin, Deputy Director of the National Center for the Safety of Aquatic Products and Aquaculture (FSBI NTsRBP, owned by Rosselkhoznadzor). According to him, this concerns deeply processed products, such as rieta (better known as a pate with added cottage cheese and soft cheese – ROSNG). The expert also called the problem of similar falsification of cod fish species acute. According to him, cod is often replaced with pollock and other cheaper fish of the cod family. However, he did not specify what share of such violations are found on the market today. At the same time, Adiatulin called the situation with canned saury positive in this ...

Source: Rosng