Teddy Hans is a Las Vegas, Nevada-based senior copyeditor for SeafoodSource. He attended the University of Missouri’s School of Journalism, graduating with an emphasis in magazine editing. Before joining the SeafoodSource team, where he edits feature stories, Teddy worked as a quality assurance editor in content marketing and wrote freelance content for various newspapers and magazines.
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Authentica’s “microscopic passport” limiting fraud, misrepresentation in global seafood supply chain
Supply chain risk management firm Authentica is using an ingredient as simple as baker’s yeast to bolster food safety and risk management in the global seafood supply chain.
Authentica Founder and CEO Mike Borg told SeafoodSource at the 2025 Seafood Expo North America, which took place 16 to 18 March in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A., that importers, distributors, and anyone else who receives food products in their final packaged form
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Hsiang-Hsiu Hung, the manager of Tainan, Taiwan-based seafood company Fisherman’s Hometown International, is trying to spread the word to Western markets about a fish that is little known outside of Asia: milkfish.
Milkfish gets its name from the whitish color of its scales, and is a popular cuisine staple in Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia, and other Asian countries.
Though the fish might be little known in Western markets, to Hung, it
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Vlasis Tsezos has held many roles in his 25-year career, including time spent as an electrical engineer, a lieutenant in the Greek Marine Corps, and an Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud data specialist.
But, it was his time spent as a management consultant, where he worked with food companies to optimize their value chains, that sparked the idea to co-found Athens, Greece-headquartered food traceability software firm Agritrack in
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Hand-picked lobster meat, lobster cakes, lobster crostini, lobster mac and cheese, lobster dip, lobster toast, and stuffed lobster tail all signal one thing: Phillips is all in on lobster.
These products, some of which Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.-based Phillips Foods already offers, some of which are on the way, and some of which have only gone through initial ideation stages, are the result of the company's recent move into the lobster
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Disruptions to global trade that have arisen since U.S. President Donald Trump took office in early 2025 have forced importers and exporters around the globe to strategize and adapt.
As a firm that both buys and sells internationally, Taiwanese seafood firm Yen and Brothers has had to deftly navigate the quickly changing economic landscape, Yen Chief Operating Officer Chihting Yen told SeafoodSource at the 2025 Seafood Expo North
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FMI – The Food Industry Association released its seventh annual Power of Seafood report on 17 March at the 2025 Seafood Expo North America.
The most recent edition of the report highlighted that seafood continues to struggle to find solid footing at U.S. retail post-Covid.
According to the report, in 2024, the category was able to maintain the loyalty of frequent seafood shoppers – or those who consume seafood at least two times per
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Last June, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the longstanding Chevron deference – a legal precedent stemming from the 1980s that gave federal agencies wide latitude in interpreting congressional statutes.
That move, according to Robert Smith, a partner at Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.-based law firm K&L Gates, could turn the U.S. seafood industry into a more litigious environment in the near future.
“In the short term, you are
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Japanese food packaging and cold storage company Shingi Corporation is utilizing the power of magnets to ensure seafood products crafted by processors, and served by hotels, restaurants, and retailers around the globe, stay as fresh as possible for as long as possible.
Shingi Executive Manager Nori Tanaka told SeafoodSource at the 2025 Seafood Expo North America that the idea for the firm’s innovative proton freezers came about around 10
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