Feds Accuse Virginia's Casey Seafood of Mislabeling Foreign Crab Meat Sold to Retailers
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Daily Press] by Peter Dujardin and Tamara Dietrich - June 30, 2015
Federal investigators are looking into whether a Newport News seafood company falsely labeled crab meat from foreign waters as Atlantic blue crab and a "Product of the USA."
New court documents filed in U.S. District Court in Norfolk indicate that federal investigators believe that Casey's Seafood Inc. mislabeled crab meat at its processing facility in the Newport News Small Boat Harbor — then passed it on to Farm Fresh, Harris Teeter and other retailers in Virginia and out of state.
A federal search warrant was executed on June 17 at Casey's, located at 807 Jefferson Ave., in a search led by Special Agent Christopher McCarron, an investigator with the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)...
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