FDA announces an order to debar seafood importer, Su Van Ho, for a period of 15 years from importing or offering to import food into the United States. In 2009, Mr. Ho pled guilty to 3 charges of violations of US law for using a fraudulent commercial invoice to falsely describe frozen silk worms as frozen dade fish, selling Salmonella-contaminated frozen featherback fish, and substituting an unrelated shipment of featherback fish for a Salmonella-contaminated shipment that was subject to an FDA order for exportation or destruction. These actions occurred in 2003 and 2004 when Mr. Ho owned and operated the seafood import and distribution company, Vincent Seafood and Trading. Mr. Ho failed to respond to FDA’ s offer for a hearing.
