{"id":559946,"date":"2026-05-01T04:43:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T04:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/559946\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T04:43:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T04:43:10","slug":"chip-shops-sell-cheap-catfish-as-traditional-fish-and-chips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/559946\/","title":{"rendered":"Chip shops sell cheap catfish as &#8216;traditional fish and chips&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Much like in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/health-21482127\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2013 horsemeat scandal<\/a>, eating cheaper fish does not present a health risk, but concerns have been raised about consumer deception.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It probably does go on,&#8221; said Andrew Cook, president of the National Federation of Fish Friers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Lancashire businessman, who runs a chip shop in Chorley, has been in the business for almost 30 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;I was only talking to somebody the other day who went into a pub and ordered fish and chips and he thought it was pangasius and when he tackled them about it, they said it was.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It is fine to eat, there&#8217;s nothing wrong with it, but when you go and get fish and chips most people expect a marine species, so cod, haddock or plaice. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think if you&#8217;ve got something that&#8217;s farmed, like pangasius, as long as it&#8217;s advertised as such that&#8217;s fine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s when it&#8217;s being sold at a cod price that&#8217;s a problem and shops need to be careful about doing that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Crook urged chip shops to list the species on their menus, adding: &#8220;As an industry, we&#8217;ve got to have the trust of the general public.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Much like in the 2013 horsemeat scandal, eating cheaper fish does not present a health risk, but concerns&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":559947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-559946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}