Le Folcalvez Xua N, Skeaff Sheila, Bradbury Kathryn E
AgroParisTech, Paris, France.
Department of Human Nutrition, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
J R Soc N Z. 2024 Sep 4;55(6):2351-2365. doi: 10.1080/03036758.2024.2392801. eCollection 2025.
The environmental impact of consuming seafood is receiving increasing attention. However, in New Zealand, environmental claims on food products are not regulated in the Food Standards Code. The objective of this study is to describe labelling practices, including environmental claims, on fish and other seafood products available in New Zealand. In total, 369 fish and seafood products from 2022 were analysed from Nutritrack - a database of food products available from major New Zealand supermarkets. For each product, labelling information, as well as the number and type of environmental claims were extracted from archived photographs of all sides of the product packages. Self-declared environmental claims were evaluated against the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 14021:2016 standard for environmental claims. About half (48.4%) of the products did not state the harvest location, 8.7% did not state the processing location and 92.6% did not state the harvest method. We identified 33 distinct self-declared environmental claims displayed on a total of 152 packaged seafood products, with 78.8% classified as unclear, and therefore in breach of the ISO standard. This study suggests that stronger regulation around seafood labelling is needed in New Zealand, to provide consumers transparent, accurate and substantiated information.
食用海鲜对环境的影响正受到越来越多的关注。然而，在新西兰，食品标准法典并未对食品的环境声明进行规范。本研究的目的是描述新西兰市场上鱼类和其他海鲜产品的标签做法，包括环境声明。总共从Nutritrack（一个来自新西兰主要超市的食品数据库）中分析了2022年的369种鱼类和海鲜产品。对于每种产品，从产品包装各面的存档照片中提取标签信息以及环境声明的数量和类型。根据国际标准化组织（ISO）14021:2016环境声明标准对自行声明的环境声明进行评估。约一半（48.4%）的产品未标明捕捞地点，8.7%未标明加工地点，92.6%未标明捕捞方法。我们在总共152种包装海鲜产品上识别出33种不同的自行声明的环境声明，其中78.8%被归类为不明确，因此不符合ISO标准。这项研究表明，新西兰需要对海鲜标签进行更严格的监管，以便为消费者提供透明、准确且有充分依据的信息。
