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Honesty in seafood labeling law advances in MS for restaurants. Here’s what’s next

Mississippi consumers would know whether their seafood and crawfish are domestic or foreign under a law the House unanimously passed Monday, months after two Biloxi businesses pleaded guilty in a federal case to selling foreign fish as Gulf fresh. The seafood labeling law expands a current state law that applies only to shrimp and crawfish served in restaurants. The proposed law makes it illegal in Mississippi for wholesalers, processors, retailers, restaurants and other food service establishments to represent foreign seafood and crawfish as domestic, either verbally or in writing. If the measure becomes law, Mississippi would join Louisiana and Alabama in requiring that seafood be labeled. more, >>CLICK TO READ<< 09:36