certified net weight
Frozen Net Weight vs Glazed Weight
Our industry is plagued with the fraudulent practice of including glaze (ice) as part of the declared frozen net weight. Frozen seafood products that are less than 100% net weight (i.e. - seafood products that may include the weight of the glazing in the declared net weight) have increasingly made their way into the marketplace. All major nations around the world all agree that the net weight of frozen seafood may not include the weight of glazing.
This practice of including glaze as part of the net weight of frozen seafood such as shrimp, lobster, and fish fillets is fraudulent and must be stopped.
What Is the True Cost to Our Industry and the Consumers We Service?
True Net Weight
Overstating the net quantity of contents (such as including the weight of ice glaze) misbrands the product. Violations of this kind are illegal in most nations and may be criminally prosecuted under their specific laws. In the US the FD&C Act treats this as felonies since they are committed with the intent to defraud or mislead.
We have created the Seafood Sourcing Certified Net Weight eco-label so that companies can showcase their brands as 100% true net weight content.
While this practice of packing seafood with glaze can be found on a very small scale at the retail level, it has infected the foodservice industry around the world. Many of the world's top seafood producing countries have made it a common business practice to offer their products packed 10%, 20%, 30% glaze and even more. The unfortunate recipient of these types of products, the restaurant owners, are being defrauded daily.
The seafood and foodservice distributors are more willing than ever to buy and sell these misrepresented products to earn more profits. In addition to earning more profit, they are also able to offer these products at reduced selling prices. These reduced selling prices are an unfair business practice to the companies packing and sell seafood that is 100% true net weight.
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