Chinese Shrimp Continue to Show Antibiotic Contamination
Over the weekend, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) released information regarding entry line refusals for February. In total, 10 of the 122 (8.2%) of the entry line refusals reported for last month were of shrimp for reasons related to banned antibiotics. The ten shrimp entry lines refused by the FDA for banned antibiotics in February were from […]
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Know Your Supplier Update: FDA Refusing Record Amounts of Shrimp Contaminated with Banned Antibiotics
For November 2014, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) has reported that the agency refused a total of 82 entry lines of seafood. Of these refusals, 21 were for antibiotic contamination of shrimp products. This reporting continues the recent trend of increased FDA regulatory action to counter the continued presence of banned antibiotics in imported shrimp. As shown in […]