Seafood Distributor QPS and Two Managers Sentenced for Conspiracy and Misbranding Seafood
Mississippi seafood distributor Quality Poultry and Seafood Inc. (QPS) and two of its managers were recently sentenced for conspiring to mislabel seafood and commit wire fraud by marketing inexpensive and frozen imported substitutes as more expensive and premium local species, according to Mississippi state authorities.
QPS was sentenced to five years of probation and ordered to pay the United States $1 million in forfeitures and a $500,000 criminal fine.
QPS was also ordered by the Court to maintain species, source, and cost records for five years...
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