Christine Blank, a veteran freelance writer and editor, covers all aspects of the seafood industry, from fishing to processing to selling and serving the final product. When she is not writing for SeafoodSource, Christine gets to taste scrumptious seafood dishes at U.S. restaurants for her food and travel blog, Flavorful Excursions (www.flavorfulexcursions.net). Christine loves to eat seafood of any kind, but lobster, crab and crawfish are among her favorites. In addition to SeafoodSource.com and SeaFood Business, Christine’s articles have been published in hundreds of leading magazines and newspapers, such as The New York Times, USA Today and Associated Press.
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A restaurant in the U.S. state of Mississippi is facing a class-action lawsuit over selling imported seafood and promoting it as locally caught catch coming from the Gulf of Mexico.
The historic Biloxi, Mississippi, U.S.A.-based Mary Mahoney’s Old French House restaurant previously faced federal felony charges over the same issue.
Mary Mahoney’s owner, Bobby Mahoney, as well as co-owner Anthony Cvitanovich, pled guilty to federal
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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) plan to launch an investigation into high grocery prices, FTC Chair Lina Khan said at a meeting on 1 August.
Khan announced at the first virtual public meeting of the Strike Force on Unfair and Illegal Pricing that she will ask the FTC to launch an inquiry into grocery prices “in order to probe the tactics that big grocery chains use to hike prices and extract
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Encino, California, U.S.A.-based grocery chain Gelson’s is growing its range of sushi products and is committing to greater use of skin-pack technology that extends shelf life.
Gelson’s, a retail operator of 27 stores, all in Southern California, has sold sushi for 20 years in all of its stores, as well as at sit-down wine and tapas bars in 10 of its stores. It is suppplied by Santa Fe Springs, California- based Red Shell Sushi.
With
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Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.-headquartered food supplier Conagra will soon ask a U.S. judge to dismiss a class-action complaint alleging it artificially adds weight to its Van de Kamp and Mrs. Paul’s frozen fish products via overglazing.
The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in Chicago on 11 June, alleges Conagra “pumps up” its fish with the industrial filler sodium
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Samut Sakhon, Thailand-based seafood company Thai Union Group has claimed that restaurant chain Red Lobster, of which Thai Union once owned a minority share, owes the group around USD 3.7 million (EUR 3.4 million) due to sudden changes in demand forecasts for shrimp.
An investigation to determine whether that claim is valid is now underway.
Thai Union said it built up an excess inventory of shrimp in late 2023 that was custom-produced for Red
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Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.-based Trident Seafoods and Ocean Beauty Seafoods are targeting different buyers with their salmon nugget products, with the former company aiming to get their salmon nuggets into U.S. schools and the latter company targeting retailers.
Trident executives recently attended the School Nutrition Association Annual National Conference in Boston, Massachusetts, where they encouraged U.S. school foodservice buyers to check
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