FDA Crackdown on Contaminated Shrimp Continues – Historic Levels of Entry Line Refusals Surpasses All Previous Agency Experience
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released information regarding import entry line refusals for the month of March 2015. Over one in three of the 155 seafood import entry lines refused last month were for entry lines of shrimp for reasons related to veterinary drug residues. In total, the FDA reported that 58 entry lines of shrimp were refused […]
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FDA Is Cracking Down on Contaminated Shrimp Imports
In 2014, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) reported refusing 203 entry lines of imported shrimp for reasons related to veterinary drug residues. The number of refusals was not only substantially higher than what FDA had refused in the prior three years, refusals increased in frequency as the year wore on. In fact, in the second half of 2014 […]
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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 […]
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Know Your Supplier (Continued): Antibiotics in Vietnam’s Shrimp Aquaculture and the Limits of Industry Certification
On July 15, 2013, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) added Ngoc Tri Seafood Joint Stock Company to Import Alert 16-124 (“Detention Without Physical Examination of Aquaculture Seafood Products Due to Unapproved Drugs”) for shrimp products because of chloramphenicol. The addition of company to the Import Alert followed the FDA’s reporting that seven entry lines of vannamei and black […]