Dive Brief:
- Executives from two Mucci companies charged in a labeling dispute now face a pre-trial hearing brought against them in July 2014 by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, who has accused the two companies of labeling produce from Mexico as being from Canada.
- Each Canadian company and its executive have exactly the same eight federal criminal charges. Those charged include Mucci Pac Ltd. and its general manager Danny Mucci as well as Mucci Marketing International Inc. and its vice president of sales Joe Spano.
- The named victims of the labeling scandal were three retailers — Costco Wholesale, Loblaw Cos. and Sobeys Inc. — and the public.
Dive Insight:
According to The Packer, these charges include producing illegal packaging labeled with the wrong country of origin, selling those incorrectly packaged foods, and illegally marketing them as products from Canada instead of Mexico, the actual country of origin.