OCEAN CITY — U.S. Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) and her colleagues in neighboring Virginia last week fired off a strongly worded letter urging the Obama administration to take steps to combat seafood fraud.
Mikulski, along with Virginia Senators Tim Kaine and Mark Warner, and Congressman Rob Wittman, urged the administration to include the fraudulent labeling of crabmeat in its efforts to combat fishing and seafood fraud. It has come to light recently that some seafood processors are deceptively labeling foreign crabmeat as a “product of the United States” by importing foreign crabmeat and repacking it in domestic facilities, misleading consumers as to its origin.
“Maryland’s seafood industry is critical for jobs on the Eastern Shore and our way of life,” said Mikulski. “When families read the crabmeat they are consuming is the product of the United States, they expect it to be. We must end the practice of dangerous and deceptive labeling of imported crabmeat that puts in jeopardy the livelihoods of Maryland’s watermen.”
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5 comments:
And if anyone should know about dangerous and deceptive labeling its the Democrats!
Pretending they are caring about the constituents during an election year.
Well said 12:51PM
Why is it that this sort of thing (minorly trivial) is the only time we hear anything out of Babs? Could it be she really isn't concerned with Maryland unless she can get on camera?
I watched good ole Mikulski tour a plant back in the 80's and the processor was taking Mexican crab meat and canning into Maryland House crab meat. What a liar and cheat she is.
She was very happy at what she saw and endorsed the operation.
It's not the illegal foreign crab meat she should be worrying about, it's the illegal immigrant humans flooding the U.S. borders including Maryland that she should be battling!
But, no, she's a repugnant boil on the government skin of Maryland, and the uglier she can make her surroundings, the better it makes her look, she thinks.
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