Investigators did not release the names of patients, vendors and fish distributors.
SYDNEY SEPIA In 2009, Martin Benn, who had previously cooked at the famed Tetsuya's, opened his own place (sepiarestaurant.com.au), partnering with one of Australia's prominent fish distributors.
"Have you ever seen 'Chef's Table'?" The show, on Netflix, had an episode about a woman, from a family of fish distributors, whose relatives told her that women couldn't make sushi.
It was Mizushima's fish distributor and friend Ueno Katsuyuki who hooked him up with García and Calvo, but he is none the wiser as to how the clams found their way to Bolivia.
Mr. Wagner, the first chef to participate in the project, said that fish from distributors ends up being two or three times as expensive, and is usually out of the water three days longer than the Trace and Trust fish.
A severe guppy shortage has already emerged, according to distributors, while fish farmers statewide expect losses of more than 50 percent as African cichlids, marble mollies, danios and other cheerful-looking varieties sink like pebbles to the bottom of freshwater ponds across Florida.
Second, the RFID-based traceability management system manages production information, reseller's inventories, transaction information of distributors, live-fish arrival/shipment/transport information.
Sando, his family-owned distributor of frozen fish to Vigo-area restaurants, has had a 40 percent drop in revenue from a year ago, Mr. Manzanares said.
Experts suggest that much of the mislabeling occurs at sea or where distributors cut up a fish hundreds to thousands of miles away, making a filet's provenance hard to verify.
The same afternoon, the F.D.A. issued a news release saying what journalists had already begun reporting the day before: the packer had notified distributors of the smoked fish throughout the country to destroy all stocks of the company's products.
That rule, which BP lobbied for, might be used to exclude businesses farther inland whose bottom lines were hit by the drop in tourism and fishing, among them tackle shops, beer distributors, curio shops, seafood distributors, and gas stations and restaurants along the major highways to the beach.
