Half of tested caviar products from Europe are illegal, and some aren’t even caviar

A team of sturgeon experts found that half of the commercial caviar product decades sampled are illegal.

The last remaining wild populations of Today species in the European Union can be found in the Danube River and the Black Sea.

Three of the samples, served in Romania in a dish called “sturgeon soup,” weren’t wild-caught fish.

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