Tuesday, November 3, 2015

03/11/2015: Telegraph: Whiff of 'fraud' as Eurocrats tricked into eating cheap fish in Brussels restaurants

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/11971869/Whiff-of-fraud-as-Eurocrats-tricked-into-eating-cheap-fish-in-Brussels-restaurants.html
Even experts have been fooled (Image: Barbara Wells)
Eurocrats have been hoodwinked into eating cheap fish, an undercover investigation into Brussels restaurants has established, Matthew Holehouse writes for the Telegraph.

EU officials are being ripped-off and their health put in danger by a "systemic” fraud in the Belgian dining scene that sees one in three fish dishes mislabelled.

An investigation by campaigners using undercover diners and DNA sample analysis found that even the restaurants of the European Commission and Parliament are, wittingly or unwittingly, passing off low-grade fillets as delicacies. 

Read the full Telegraph article HERE.


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