Mark Platt
Shifco Mislabeling Fish Products
Boca Raton, Florida
Mark Platt of Boca Raton, have been sentenced after pleading guilty to mislabeling salmon fillets. Platt, Shifco and Northern Fisheries engaged in a scheme through which Platt oversaw the false repackaging and labeling of 1,500 pounds of frozen chum salmon fillets. In January and February 2010, fillets from China were relabeled as a “Product of Russia” because Russian salmon draws a higher price.