Wegmans Adds Organic Shrimp

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January 3, 2012

Rochester, N.Y.-based Wegmans is expanding organic options to its store brands seafood selection with the addition of Wegmans Organic Farmed Shrimp.

“The positive reaction of our customers to the Irish Organic Salmon, certified by the European Union, made us eager to have other organic offerings,” Senior Vice President of Consumer Affairs, Mary Ellen Burris, wrote in her blog on the retailer’s website. The product, like the salmon, carries the European Union (EU) Organic Certification, she wrote, noting that no U.S. organic standard for seafood has been established yet by the USDA. For more on Wegmans’ Irish Organic Salmon see “Wegmans Imports Traceable Organic Salmon from Ireland.”

The EU designation means the shrimp was raised under conditions that address the health and environmental challenges in farmed shrimp production. “Our seafood guy, Carl Salamone, has known the Vanoni family company (OMARSA) producing this shrimp for several years,” Burris wrote. “But the Guayaquil, Ecuador-based aqua-farm only received its EU organic certification in January of 2010.”

The E-Z Peel shrimp are raised on the northwest coast of South America in mostly inland ponds to avoid interference with mangrove forests or coastal wetland. A limited number of shrimp in the ponds means less stress on the shrimp and on the environment. All the feed is local and certified organic. As with all Wegmans shrimp -- organic or not – they never receive antibiotics or hormones and are never treated with chemical preservatives.

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