FDA Debars Importer After Guilty Plea for Seafood Mislabeling

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.
March 1, 2013

The Food and Drug Administration has debarred seafood importer Richard
Stowell from importing food into the United States for three years based on
his felony conviction for instructing his company’s employees to mislabel
shrimp from Thailand and Malaysia as shrimp from Ecuador and Honduras
and then selling it to a supermarket chain. Stowell pleaded guilty to three
felony counts in July 2011 and failed to respond to the notice of proposed
debarment. See Federal Register, February 26, 2013.

Categories: Issue 473, Legislation, Regulations and Standards
Tags: criminal, imports, seafood

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FDA Debars Importer After Guilty Plea for Seafood Mislabeling

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