A new report on seafood labelling contains good news and bad news about the sustainability of seafood Canadians buy at their local grocery store. Environmentalists at SeaChoice say most seafood making "self-declared" eco-friendly claims were impossible to prove or downright misleading, while those with some form of third-party oversight were credible. "We found a lot of labels that have something called self-declared claims and these are, we found, very vague, non-specific." SeaChoice staff attempted to verify 234 environmental claims across 181 seafood products from major retailers in Toronto, Vancouver, Saskatoon, Montreal and Halifax. However, SeaChoice said it had difficulty verifying the sustainability of canned tuna products with third-party endorsements.

Source: CBC News September 14, 2020 19:18 UTC