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Two Shrimp Exporters Added to FDA’s Import Alert Lists for Antibiotics Over Last Month; FDA Cracks Down on Salmonella in Shrimp in May

On Saturday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published detailed data regarding 74 total seafood entry line refusals in May, of which five (6.8%) were of shrimp for reasons related to banned antibiotics. In addition to these five entry lines, another twenty-two entry lines of shrimp refused for containing salmonella or being found to be filthy (or both).

Over the first five months of this year, the FDA has refused a total of 36 entry lines of shrimp for reasons related to banned antibiotics, equal to the total amount of entry lines of shrimp refused on the same basis in all of 2020.

 

The five shrimp entry lines refused for antibiotic residues in May were for shipments from two different companies in Bangladesh and India:
  • BD Seafood Limited (Bangladesh), a company that is currently listed on Import Alert 16-129 (“Detention Without Physical Examination of Seafood Products Due to Nitrofurans”) as of May 16, 2022, had one entry line refused for shrimp contaminated with veterinary drug residues by the Division of West Coast Imports on May 15, 2022; and
  • Albys Agro Pvt. Ltd. (India), a company that is currently listed on Import Alert 16-129 (“Detention Without Physical Examination of Seafood Products Due to Nitrofurans”) as of June 3, 2022, had four entry lines refused for shrimp contaminated with nitrofurans and veterinary drug residues by the Division of West Coast Imports on May 16, 2022.
In addition to these shipments, the FDA also refused another twenty-two (22) entry lines of shrimp from five companies in three countries (Indonesia, India, and Ecuador) for the presence of salmonella or for being filthy (or both), including:
  •  Two entry lines of shrimp from PT Dua Putra Utama Makmur in Indonesia were refused on May 24, 2022 by the Division of West Coast Imports for being filthy and for the presence of salmonella;
  • One entry line of shrimp from Dwarka Seafood in India was refused on May 3, 2022 by the Division of Northeast Imports for being filthy and for the presence of salmonella;
  • One entry line of shrimp from Sterling Foods in India was also refused on May 25, 2022 by the Division of Northeast Imports for being filthy and for the presence of salmonella;
  • A total of seven entry lines of shrimp manufactured by Industrial Pesquera Santa Priscila S.A. in Ecuador was refused on May 13, 2022 by the Division of Southeast Imports for the presence of salmonella, while one more entry line of shrimp from the same company but produced at a different factory (Factory 2) was also refused on May 27, 2022 by the Division of Southwest Imports for the presence of salmonella; and
  • One entry line of shrimp from Reypezpacific S.A. in Ecuador was refused on May 3, 2022 by the Division of West Coast Imports for being filthy and another nine entry lines of shrimp from the same company was refused on May 4, 2022 also by the Division of West Coast Imports.

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