Illegal Trade Of Caviar Curbed By International Regulation DNA
testing of retail black caviar conducted by scientists from the
Institute for Conservation Science at Stony Brook University and
American Museum of Natural History indicates trade policy can
help reduce the incidence of caviar mislabeling Research that
used mitochondrial DNA-based testing to compare the extent of
fraudulent labeling of black caviar purchased before and after
international protection shows conservation benefits. A team of
scientists from the Institute for Conservation Science at Stony
Brook University and the Sackler Institute for Comparative
Genomics at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH)
repeated a market survey of commercially available caviar in the
New York City area that was conducted before the protection was
put in place, and the results showed nearly a 50 percent
decrease in fraudulently labeled caviar. “Testing the
effectiveness of an international conservation agreement:
marketplace forensics and CITES caviar t