Foppen, a 94-year-old seafood exporter from the Netherlands, stands to lose a lot of money if it loses its smoked salmon contract with Costco in the wake of this weeks salmon recall.

 

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Last year’s exports of smoked salmon from the Netherlands into the United States were valued at $25 million (€19.2 million) and volume of 1.3 million kilos, according to National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) statistics. While it's not a certainty that all that volume comes from Foppen and ends up at Costco, smoked salmon industry sources told IntraFish the overwhelming majority is.

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