Fish Tale Has DNA Hook: Students Find Bad Labels

Fish Tale Has DNA Hook: Students Find Bad Labels

USA 21 August 2008 -

Source: The News York Times
Many New York sushi restaurants and seafood markets are playing a game of bait and switch, say two high school students turned high-tech sleuths.
In a tale of teenagers, sushi and science, Kate Stoeckle and Louisa Strauss, who graduated this year from the Trinity School in Manhattan, took on a freelance science project in which they checked 60 samples of seafood using a simplified genetic fingerprinting technique to see whether the fish New Yorkers buy is what they think they are getting.

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