Barramundi is no stranger to everyone living in Australia, it is a very famous fish in Australia, large, delicious meat, and most importantly, less thorns.
Perhaps many people hear the name of Barramundi and do not know it very well, then its Chinese name must be familiar to everyone - Blind Cao.
It is used by major Chinese restaurants and Fish & Chips as a cooking ingredient for the main course.
While many people are still immersed in delicious food, there is a news report a few days ago: 60% of the blind cao (fish & chips) in the Australian market are
false! goods!
Why? It turns out that more than 60% of the blind cao on the Australian market originate from imports, rather than domestic production.
It's as if a lot of Australian seafood is imported from Southeast Asia.
These imports are also blind cao, but they are grown in other countries, and there is no difference in body size, meat quality, taste, and nutritional value.
And it's cheaper!
Before the news broke, many people did not know that the original blind Cao can also be imported, after knowing, many Australians have expressed dissatisfaction, Australians believe in Australian production in terms of food and ingredients, that imported products will be more or less defective, although they are cheaper.
Some have even expressed concern that the presence of bacteria and viruses in the large number of imported blind caos may cause irreparable losses to the local aquaculture industry.
A fisherman said in an interview that if fish containing diseases flow into the market, causing the spread of disease, the local fish farming industry will suffer an unprecedented blow, and a large number of fisheries will go bankrupt.
However, in order to prevent the emergence of infectious diseases in advance, customs requires the exporting countries of blind cao to declare that the fish have undergone a complete safety quarantine and will not carry any contagious bacteria and diseases.
However, the report also pointed out that there is no evidence that there is a safety hazard in the imported blind cao. The fear of coming to Australia is not unreasonable, because African swine fever is rampant, and the pig breeding industry in many countries has suffered a catastrophe without good customs quarantine.
Australian Customs also immediately banned all pork, whether raw or cooked, with or without packaging, prohibited from entering Australia.
Although most of the blind caos were not of Australian origin this time, there has not yet been an infectious disease about blind caos, which may be the reason why the government tacitly imports blind caos in large quantities.
This can't help but remind us of the real and false salmon that has been made in China, in fact, many times the salmon we eat is rainbow trout from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau:
Due to the similar taste, many stores use rainbow trout to counterfeit salmon, but the quality is really far worse. Even in Australia, you can see these "fake salmon"
With a loud name, but selling worse quality meat, Australian restaurants, it is getting darker... I don't know if you have identified these real and fake fish in your life?