SYSCO Food Services-West Florida was ordered to turn over scores of documents, including records of all fish products bought and sold in 2006, results of every fish verification test for the last four years, and the names of all former employees who handled imported fish in 2006.
SYSCO, based in Palmetto, supplied several restaurants with frozen "grouper" imports that turned out to be cheaper species when tested last year by news outlets and the attorney general.
"We're attempting to discover how these fish are marketed, whether or not it was clear to restaurants what they were buying and paying for," Sandi Copes, spokeswoman for Attorney General Bill McCollom, said Friday.
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