AG settles with supplier in fake grouper probe

[Bruce]

TAMPA, Fla. — Florida's Attorney General has reached a settlement with a national food distributor over allegations it was providing Tampa-area restaurants with phony grouper.

Bill McCollum's office announced Wednesday that Sysco Food Services - West Coast Florida, Inc. will refrain from marketing items as grouper without taking reasonable steps to make sure they're not another, less expensive fish. The company will also donate $100,000 worth of food to local soup kitchens and reimburse the state's $200,000 investigative fees.

The Attorney General's Office began investigating allegations in October 2006 that Tampa-area restaurants were passing off fish such as Emperor, Sutchi and Bream as grouper. Sysco was the supplier for 14 of the 17 restaurant found to be doing this.


You can't tell me that a food purveyor the size of Sysco didn't have a professional fish monger and that this wasn't done on purpose to cheat the public.
Not much of a fine for a company of its size.

This is one reason I no longer order fish at a resturant. Doesn't matter how fancy or expensive a place it is. The general public gets ripped off all the time.
Only place I know you can trust would be Brewsters place. Just a little on the far side for me to eat at.
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[Harry Babb]

Bruce
Jo Ann and I went to Destin one evening last month to eat at the Lucky Snapper.......one of my favorite places to visit.

The waiter was explaining the menu to us. He named some sort of fish that I did not recognize......seems like it started with a "P", but not sure.

I must have looked at him rather puzzled, then I asked him while pointing at the Gulf, "Is that a Gulf fish?"

He informed me that it was IMPORTED from Viet Nam.....I thanked him for his honesty and ordered shrimp that came from who knows where!!

I sure as hell did not drive 2 hours to eat something from Viet f@&*ing Nam

I'd bet Sysco is ain't by themselves.......they are only the one that got caught.

You should try to buy domestic steel these days.....rots of ruck

Harry