ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- This might be an only-in-Alaska problem: A restaurant in Fairbanks that has told customers since 2013 it was serving reindeer tenderloin actually was giving them elk. The Pump House has been fined $50,000 by the state for mislabeling the meat. The parent company of the restaurant agreed to pay the criminal fine, donate $10,532 to three not-for-profit food groups and publicly apologize. The meat actually came from elk in New Zealand.
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