Lucky to Pay $200,000 Fine for False Labeling
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VENTURA — Lucky supermarkets agreed Friday to pay $200,000 in fines and penalties to settle a Ventura County lawsuit stemming from its sale of crabless crab salad and cream pies that lacked cream.
“We were not trying to mislead anyone,” said Robert P. Hermanns, Lucky Stores’ executive vice president.
Assistant Dist. Atty. Colleen Toy White whose office filed the suit, agreed that “there was not a corporate mentality to do this.”
Lucky was faulted for selling “seafood salad with crab” that contained only imitation crab and offering as “ham” a cooked-ham-and-water product with 32% added ingredients.
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