StarKist® Sourcing 100% of its Tuna and Salmon from Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) or Fishery Improvement Project (FIP) Fisheries
America s Favorite Tuna Company(1) Commits to Sourcing 100% of its Tuna and Salmon from Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) Assessed Fisheries by 2025
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PITTSBURGH, April 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ StarKist Co. announced today that it has achieved a goal to source 100% of its tuna and salmon from sustainable sources. All tuna and salmon procured by StarKist
® are purchased from third-party suppliers that meet the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) standard for sustainable fishing or are working toward certification, including those participating in a comprehensive, time bound Fishery Improvement Project (FIP).
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9th Circ. Directly Supports Zetia Class Fight, 4th Circ. Told
Law360 (April 8, 2021, 11:34 PM EDT) Merck and Glenmark have told the Fourth Circuit that a newly issued Ninth Circuit decision upending class certification for buyers alleging price-fixing of canned tuna directly supports undoing certification of drug wholesalers accusing the two drugmakers of blocking a generic form of cholesterol drug Zetia.
The Ninth Circuit s decertification of three separate classes of direct buyer retailers, individual consumers or end-payers and indirect buyer commercial food preparers suing StarKist Co. and Tri-Union Seafoods LLC, which does business as Chicken of the Sea, warrants Fourth Circuit decertification of the wholesaler class, according to a letter brief filed Wednesday.
The American Samoa government is working with StarKist Samoa to ease the critical worker shortage at the cannery.
Starkist is the territory s largest private employer, and the worker shortage is impacting the company s ability to keep up with global demand.
Our correspondent said StarKist Samoa had faced a shortage of workers, especially fish cleaners since mid 2020, and it just got worse at the beginning of this year.
StarKist Samoa last week launched a new advertising campaign saying that its hiring fish cleaners and special skilled workers.
The advertisement also said in Samoan that if the person s Immigration ID had expired StarKist would work with the American Samoa Immigration Office on this issue.
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9th Circ. Unhooks Tuna Cos. From Price-Fixing Class Cert.
Law360 (April 6, 2021, 7:45 PM EDT) The Ninth Circuit on Tuesday decertified three buyer classes in sprawling antitrust multidistrict litigation over the alleged price-fixing of canned tuna, saying statistical evidence can be used to establish who can claim injury, but the district court must first determine the number of uninjured proposed class members.
In a published opinion, a partially split Ninth Circuit panel vacated a California federal judge s order certifying three separate classes of direct buyer retailers, individual consumers or end-payers and indirect buyer commercial food preparers, agreeing with StarKist Co. and Tri-Union Seafoods LLC, which does business as Chicken of the Sea, that the district court.