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Advocacy Blog
Consumer Reports Jim Rogers is as Accurate as a Groundhog Predicting the Weather
Ratings and Reviews Service Continues to Peddle Misinformation about Mercury in Seafood Is it Groundhog Day because it sure feels like it? Nearly a month after we exposed Consumer Reports mercury-...
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Advocacy Blog
Greenpeace Releases New… Blah, Blah, Blah
Reaching into its bag of retread tricks, Greenpeace— for the hundred millionth time — is releasing a “Tuna Retailer Scorecard” that no consumers will pay attention to. The thinly veiled fundr...
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Advocacy Blog
We Did Consumer Reports Work for Them
How Worried Should You Be About Consumer Reports? When we challenged reporter, Lauren Kirchner and her team at Consumer Reports, to release all their mercury-in-canned-tuna testing data and put it...
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Advocacy Blog
Really, Consumer Reports? Show Us The Numbers
Consumer Reports new story titled “How Worried Should You Be About Mercury in Your Tuna” is a quintessential example of a news outlet writing its conclusion first and then reverse engineering the...
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Advocacy Blog
Consumer Reports Loves a Good Scare Story
NFI has learned that Consumer Reports magazine is preparing to release a “story” that documents its efforts to test mercury in canned tuna. A story the outlet has repeatedly produced over the yea...
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Aquaculture Blog
Aquaculture and the Future of Fish?
Did you know 52% of the seafood people eat globally comes from aquaculture? Well, it does and that’s why countries and states interested in the future of fish are devoting time and resources to c...
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Advocacy Blog
TIME Magazine Editors Forget to Research Salmon Story
A recent column in Time about farmed salmon appears to have attracted little or no editorial oversight as it was rife with inaccuracies masquerading as opinion. This is not the first time this onc...
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Uncategorized Blog
Wear Sunscreen and Read Past the Headlines
A recent study that suggested a link between fish consumption and melanoma has garnered quite a few headlines. The challenge is, many consumers (and even other journalists) don’t read past said hea...
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Trade & Commerce Blog
New Seafood Forms Aim to Improve Buyer Process
NFI and FMI - The Food Industry Association launched new resources designed to standardize the seafood buying process and improve efficiency. Retailers and wholesalers can use these fillable for...
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IUU Blog
The modern-day lawn dart: NOAA’s Seafood Import Monitoring Program
This article was originally published in Urner Barry’s Reporter Quarterly Magazine. The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Seafood Import Monitoring Program (SIMP) ...