The Fisheries Department is in hot water again over conflicting DNA test results involving blackchin tilapia found in canned products.
The agency commissioned laboratory tests in a bid to address public suspicion following a new round of the tilapia controversy last May, when a consumer who bought canned mackerel found fish chunks resembling blackchin tilapia and posted photos of the dubious product on Facebook. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) later confiscated more than 12,000 cans from the factory in Samut Sakhon and charged the owner with mislabelling the products.
