MOBILE, Ala. (WPMI) — The Mobile County lawmaker behind Alabama’s seafood labeling law believes it’s not being enforced. The law says the Alabama Department of Public Health can assess civil penalties on restaurants that don’t display a sign telling consumers if the seafood is wild-caught or imported. Rep. Chip Brown says restaurants knowingly serving imports marketed as wild-caught Gulf shrimp are not facing consequences, even though the labeling law has been on the books for more than a year and there’s been five rounds of DNA testing in Alabama performed by third-party genetic testing company SeaD Consulting that’s repeatedly showed diners are being duped.
“They need to be punished for that, because that’s flaunting the law,” said Brown. “I’m disappointed in the Department of Health though, their enforcement has been almost nonexistent.”
ADPH spokesperson Arrol Sheehan said two complaints have been submitted online but didn’t state what the outcomes were. Sheehan said there were also six complaints reported to the Baldwin County Health Department and investigated…