U.S. Foodservice offers seafood

ROSEMONT - Distributor U.S. Foodservice Thursday announced a partnership with the Global Aquaculture Alliance making the company the first broadline food distributor in the United States to offer its customers farm-raised seafood certified as sustainable under the Best Aquaculture Practices certification logo.

Initial offerings will include catfish, shrimp and tilapia.

This is the second sustainable seafood certification offered by U.S. Foodservice.

In April of 2008, U.S. Foodservice became the first food distributor to provide sustainable wild-caught seafood certified by the Marine Stewardship Council.