A NBC Action News investigation indicates the vast majority of Kansas City restaurants sampled in a 20 restaurant test were serving diners something other than what was promised on the menu.
The undercover video obtained during the NBC Action News investigation shows restaurant workers repeatedly identifying the fish served as what was labeled on the menu.
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We took samples from each [of 20] restaurant[s] and sent them to the Guy Harvey Research Institute at Nova Southeastern University in Florida.“She’s actually going to extract the DNA from the sample,” said Professor Mahmood Shivji as a technician extracted a thin slice of frozen fish retrieved from one of the tested Kansas City restaurants.
The Guy Harvey Research Institute’s DNA tests would reveal so much mislabeled fish, out of 20 Kansas City restaurants sampled, the tests indicate 17 restaurants – or 85 percent – substituted fish, most of them with cheaper counterfeits.
