After weathering one of the largest seafood recalls in history, Seattle-based Ocean Beauty Seafoods is suing salmon supplier Marine Harvest for $ 2 million in damages, according to undercurrentnews.com.
In late 2012, Marine Harvest issued a recall for smoked salmon products from its plant in Chile and distributed throughout the U.S. by Ocean Beauty. The recall triggered a number of recalls of various brands of smoked salmon sold at grocery stores all over the country. Eventually, the recall grew to include 110 days worth of production at Marine Harvest’s plant in Chile, prompted the plant’s permanent closure and translated to a loss of $4.4 million for the company. Ocean Beauty says it lost $2 million on the recall and that Marine Harvest has failed to compensate it .
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