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U.S. Food & Drug Administration
Seafood
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Center for
Food Safety & Applied Nutrition
Regulatory Fish Encyclopedia |
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RFE Page 1- High Resolution Images for Lane Snapper (Snapper; Lutjanus synagris)
DISCLAIMER concerning the use of
images and data in the Regulatory Fish Encyclopedia (RFE).
The Regulatory Fish Encyclopedia (RFE) is a compilation of data in
several formats that assists with the accurate identification of fish
species. It was developed to help federal, state, and local officials
and purchasers of seafood identify species substitution and
economic deception in the marketplace.
The RFE includes for each of a number of commercially relevant fish
species for sale in the U.S. market
high-resolution photographs as their scanned digital images
(jpeg format) of whole fish and their marketed product forms (such as
fillets) which may be used for visual comparison to a whole fish in
question (or its marketed product form).
The RFE also includes unique taxonomic characteristics (physical
properties such as size, shape, color, etc.), usually in a
"checklist" format, to aid in identification. In addition there is
chemical taxonomic information consisting of
species-characteristic biochemical patterns which may be compared
quantitatively to patterns obtained by an appropriate laboratory analysis
of the fish in question. These patterns include data from
IEF (isoelectric focusing) and
RFLP (restriction fragment length polymorphism) studies.
There is a more detailed Description
of the development and implementation of the RFE.
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