A grand jury soon could hand up indictments over cheap imported shrimp being mislabeled as “Caught in the U.S.”
Federal agents have been hot on the trail of some gulf coast processors, who have allegedly been cheating consumers. According to the National Marine Fisheries Service, the U-S imports 90 percent of its shrimp, about 1.9 billion pounds, from nations like Vietnam, Indonesia and China.
For years, federal investigators say they’ve suspected some shrimp processors have been re-packaging pond raised imports in an attempt to pass them off as wild caught shrimp from the U.S.
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