CA Attorney General Announces Settlements with Companies Selling Seafood Products with Cadmium, Lead
OAKLAND - California Attorney General Rob Bonta today announced settlements with Clearwater Fine Foods USA Inc. (Clearwater), Seaquest Seafood Corporation (Seaquest), and Jayone Foods (Jayone), resolving allegations that the companies sold fresh and/or frozen seafood products in California with elevated levels of the toxic heavy metals lead and/or cadmium without the warnings required for exposures to such contaminants, a violation of Proposition 65 and the Unfair Competition Law.
The settlement with Clearwater requires it to pay a total of $304,164.98 in civil penalties, attorneys' fees...
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