A Louisiana Festival Was Caught Serving Foreign Shrimp. This Year Was a Different Story.
One Louisiana seafood festival has done a better job of living up to its name.
In a complete turnaround from last year, all seven vendors sampled at the Morgan City Shrimp and Petroleum Festival served authentic Gulf shrimp at the Labor Day weekend event, testing showed. At the same festival last year, four out of five vendors sampled sold imported shrimp advertised as local.
The investigation in Morgan City marked a yearlong effort by a food technology company to conduct genetic testing at seafood festivals...
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