A Whistleblower on the Rot in India's Shrimp Exports https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxvDx3dKuLY The Wire Mar 27, 2024
The general manager of a shrimp packaging plant in Andhra Pradesh quit his job in order to expose the chilling deceptions and violations in the booming export industry: workers housed like animals, mistreated and underpaid, and products – later sold by Walmart, ShopRite and Hannaford – falsely labelled to cover up the use of prohibited antibiotics.
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https://www.theoutlawocean.com/investigations/india-shrimp-a-growing-goliath/the-whistleblower/ Summary of Choice Canning’s Response
Choice Canning's lawyers said that the company categorically denies the allegations made by Mr. Farinella, whom they said should not be trusted due to his criminal record. They added that all company documentation about shipments correctly shows the source of the shrimp. The company never ships antibiotic shrimp to the U.S. and the FDA has never stopped their shipments due to antibiotics because the company maintains the highest of quality standards. The lawyers also said that documents from Mr. Farinella were manipulated. (Upon request, a private firm that specializes in forensic data analysis reviewed a selection of the documents, including those specifically cited by Choice Canning, and they verified that they were not manipulated in any way.) Internal company correspondence about “Oscar" shrimp does not indicate that antibiotic shrimp was shipped abroad since this shrimp is tested a second time and likely was found at that stage to be antibiotic.