NC seafood processor fined $100,000 for mislabeling shrimp
Story Date: 8/12/2015

 

Source: WRAL, 8/11/15

A Harnett County seafood processor faces a $100,000 fine and three years of probation for labeling farm-raised, imported shrimp as wild shrimp caught in the United States. According to court documents, an employee of Alphin Brothers Inc. encouraged others at the Dunn seafood processing facility to falsely label approximately 25,000 pounds of shrimp later sold to customers in Louisiana.

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