FDA Adds Two Vietnamese Shrimp Exporters to Import Alert for Antibiotic Contamination
Two Vietnamese shrimp exporters have now been added to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Import Alert regarding aquaculture seafood products contaminated with unapproved drugs (Import Alert 16-124). A previous News Alert Update reported that six shipments of Vietnamese shrimp contaminated with banned antibiotics were refused by FDA in October. These shipments originated from two different Vietnamese seafood exporters: […]
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Know Your Supplier (Continued): Ethoxyquin, Nitrofurans, and Chloramphenicol
In September, the FDA refused 148 shipments of seafood imports. Seven of these refusals (less than five percent) were of frozen shrimp imports. Six shipments of shrimp, sent from exporters in Ecuador, India, Indonesia, and Vietnam, were refused for the presence of salmonella. And one shipment of shrimp from Bangladesh was refused because of nitrofurans and veterinary drug residues. At […]