AMCO Produce Fined $210K For Passing Off Foreign Vegetables As Canadian
March 19, 2018 | 1 min to read
A Leamington greenhouse grower was fined $210,000 Monday after federal food inspectors spent years chasing a massive paper trail that showed it was passing off Mexican-grown vegetables as Canadian products.
Federal prosecutor Paul Bailey said AMCO Produce Inc. mislabelled about $333,000 worth of produce, though it’s unclear how much the company profited from the deception.
“I recall looking at the amount of data involved, it was something equivalent to 28 printed bibles,” Bailey said outside court. “The amount of records involved to sift through was massive.”
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