An attorney general’s investigation into more than 20 Tampa Bay restaurants found 17 served a product other than grouper, and that 14 of those establishments were supplied with fish by Sysco Food Services-West Coast Florida, Inc., among other companies.
The settlement is not an admission of any wrongdoing on Sysco’s part, but rather, an agreement to modify their practices. Under the settlement, Sysco must refrain from marketing a fish as grouper unless it takes steps to determine it is in fact genuine.
The company must also donate $100,000 worth of food items to local soup kitchens and charities, and pay the state’s investigative fees of costs of $200,000.
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