Mislabeling Of Frozen Fish, Seafood Rarely Punished

At Super H Mart in Naperville, Nancy Jih piled a dozen packages of fresh salmon into her shopping cart that she planned to cut, wrap in individual baggies and freeze. That way, she said, she knows exactly what she is getting.

She has followed this practice since last fall, when frozen pollock fillets she purchased at another store seemed to weigh less than what the label indicated. Even her husband noticed. "How come you cooked so little?'' she recalled him saying. Jih, who lives in Willowbrook, said she suspected she had been charged for the ice with her fish.

"How many people had the same thing happen as I did?"

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