NFI Loses Challenge to Seafood Labeling Law; Full Implementation Will Go Ahead for 2018
SEAFOODNEWS.COM by John Sackton August 29, 2017
NFI has lost its lawsuit over the promulgation of the Seafood Import Monitoring Program by NOAA and the Department of Commerce.
As a result, the rule, as published, will go forward with an effective date of January 1, 2018. The monitoring program will require significant record keeping for both a range of wild caught and aquaculture species, and is estimated to cost as much as $18 to $20 million per year, or .005% of the total $9 billion value of US seafood imports.
NFI and the member companies that participated in the lawsuit challenged the rule on a series of grounds: First, they argued that the rule was put forward without the proper constitutional authority of the executive branch, secondly that Congress had not granted this authority to ...
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