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 […]
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Know Your Supplier: FDA Refusing Record Amounts of Shrimp Contaminated with Banned Antibiotics
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) recently reported that in October 2014 the agency refused a total of 101 entry lines of seafood. Of these refusals, 35 of the refusals were of entry lines of shrimp due to antibiotic contamination. Based on an analysis of FDA refusal data by the Southern Shrimp Alliance, the number of shrimp entry lines […]
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FDA Expands Import Alert on Chloramphenicol to Cover All Crustaceans, Including Shrimp
FDA Expands Import Alert on Chloramphenicol to Cover All Crustaceans, Including Shrimp On November 4, 2013, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) amended Import Alert 16-127 to now cover all crustaceans contaminated by chloramphenicol. Previously, the Import Alert provided for detention without physical examination of crabmeat and no other seafood products. With the amendment, the Import Alert now […]