A new Senate bill, if passed, would place seafood suppliers and restaurant owners on the hook for a USD 1,000 (EUR 725) fine and up to a year in jail for selling mislabeled seafood.
SB 1138, authored by state Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Los Angeles, would require labeling of fresh, frozen, processed and others forms of fish to be identified by its “common name,” which “means the common name or market name for any seafood species identified in the Seafood List issued by the federal Food and Drug Administration,” the bill states.
“I’ve come to learn that consumers don’t always get what they pay for,” Padilla said at a Monday morning press conference at Sacramento’s Taylor’s Market, where owner Danny Johnson gave a demonstration on identifying seafood. “Consumers deserve to be serve fish they’ve ordered.”
