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A Tale of a Fish from Two Countries

December 05, 2016 Craig A. Morris, Deputy Administrator of the AMS Livestock, Poultry, and Seed Program

How can fish in a grocery store be labeled as both “Alaskan” and “Product of China” on the same package? The answer is that although much of the seafood sold in the United States is labeled with a foreign country of origin, some of that same seafood was actually caught in U.S. waters. Under the...

Trade

What's Hot about COOL?

August 29, 2011 Cordell Givens, AMS Agricultural Marketing Specialist

Whether shoppers stroll through a grocery store or visit a local farmer’s market, they often wonder where meat or produce comes from. The Country of Origin Labeling program, or COOL, began as an amendment by Congress to the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 in the 2002 and 2008 Farm Bill. However...

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