TOKYO (AFP) - The Japanese government will tighten its inspections of fish vendors to prevent dolphin and porpoise meat from being illegally sold as whale meat.

"We have recognised the problem. Mislabelling of food products is definitely against our laws," Takanori Nagatomo, an official with the whaling section of the Fisheries Agency, said Thursday.

"We will take administrative action against those who are involved in selling dolphin meat as whale meat," he said.

He was unable to say, however, exactly what action the government would take to deal with the problem, which an international anti-whaling group said Wednesday was widespread in Japan.


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Flippin Heck ........ So miss labeling food is a bigger offence than whaling ? where on earth do they get so much whale meat from ? I thought it was just for scientific purposes . They must know a lot about whales by now

I guess they think taking action on 'the lesser of two evils' is a good
thing.