When you buy grouper fillets at your grocery store, are you really getting what you’re paying for? A new study by Oceana confirms that you may not be, and that the cost of seafood fraud is mounting. On average, consumers are being cheated out of hundreds of dollars a year because cheaper fish species are … Read more
Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) wrote a letter to FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg, urging the agency to increase enforcement efforts to address seafood fraud. In many cases, fish and other seafood is deliberately mislabeled and sold two consumers. The Senator said, “it is unacceptable that proven fraud is occurring on such a widespread basis. Seafood fraud … Read more
B. Roberts Foods of Charlotte, N.C., is recalling about 130 pounds of single serving meatloaf entrees because of an undeclared allergen and misbranding. The meatloaf contains anchovies, which is seafood, one of the eight most common allergens. The meatloaf was distributed to grocery stores in Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, … Read more