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Committee considers bill to require country-of-origin labeling for seafood on restaurant menus
Summary
House Bill 117 would require food-service establishments to disclose country of origin for seafood items. Sponsors cited high rates of imported shrimp and concerns about antibiotics and other contaminants in some foreign shrimp supplies; restaurant groups backed transparency but warned of implementation cost and menu‑update burdens.
Representative Petrie presented House Bill 117 to the House Committee on Agriculture and Consumer Affairs, proposing that food-service establishments conspicuously display the country of origin for seafood on menus.
Petrie framed the bill around U.S. seafood import patterns: he told the committee that roughly 80% of U.S. seafood is imported and that 94% of shrimp consumed in the United States is imported, with leading sources including India, China, Ecuador, Vietnam, Thailand and Indonesia. He highlighted concerns raised…
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