Not a food heist, but a funny food story nonetheless, as I heard it from my uncle an FDA inspector.
A US company got ahold of a load of tuna and wanted to sell it for people. Unfortunately, it didn't make the grade, so it was canned and labeled as catfood.
Then they found out that Canada had looser standards when it came to tuna, so the cans were sold and shipped up there.
Unfortunately the company who bought it got lazy and slapped the tuna fish label over the catfood label. Somehow some cans were sold to a US retailer and the FDA started to get calls from people who got a big surprise when they were peeling the labels off their cans of tuna and found a catfood label beneath it!
A US company got ahold of a load of tuna and wanted to sell it for people. Unfortunately, it didn't make the grade, so it was canned and labeled as catfood.
Then they found out that Canada had looser standards when it came to tuna, so the cans were sold and shipped up there.
Unfortunately the company who bought it got lazy and slapped the tuna fish label over the catfood label. Somehow some cans were sold to a US retailer and the FDA started to get calls from people who got a big surprise when they were peeling the labels off their cans of tuna and found a catfood label beneath it!