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Re:There Are No Truffles in Truffle Oil (2014) by nommm-nommm on Thursday September 08, 2016 @01:09PM (#12454898)
Who cares if it's permissible? Food fraud is surprisingly common and the chances of getting caught are close to zero. If you buy fish there's a 33% chance you get a different fish than what you bought.

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2013/02/21/172589997/one...

Re:There Are No Truffles in Truffle Oil (2014) by andrewla on Thursday September 08, 2016 @01:33PM (#12455146)
I saw this article and was slightly dubious as well. Some follow-up research indicates that the testing methodologies used had known error rates approaching the discrepencies detected during the analysis. That was enough to make me somewhat skeptical of the analysis, without doing the due diligence to dig any deeper into it. I would be much more comfortable if someone had a sting operation or videotaped an instance of actually substituting the fish as claimed, which should be incredibly easy considering how common they allege the substitutions are.