Antibiotic-Contaminated Shrimp Rejected from China and Vietnam in October

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released information regarding import refusals for last month through October 24, 2017.  Over the first three weeks of October, the FDA reports that 4 of the 63 (6.4%) total seafood entry line refusals were of shrimp for reasons related to banned antibiotics. The FDA has now reported refusing 69 entry lines of […]

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2017 Begins With A Large Number of Thai Shrimp Refusals for Banned Antibiotics

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) has released information regarding entry line refusals for first month of 2017.  In total, 8 of the 145 (5.5%) entry line refusals in January were of shrimp for reasons related to banned antibiotics. The total number of entry line rejections in January was the highest in a month since August of last year.  […]

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