US Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) will inspect reality of Viet Nam’s catfish control system in next months, according the National Agro-Forestry-Fisheries Quality Assurance Department (NAFIQAD).
Despite a new US requirement that foreign exporters demonstrate their food safety control system is equivalent to American regulations, no backlog has been recorded in Vietnamese tra fish exports to that country.
The United States Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection
Service (FSIS) has rejected a 40,000 pound (about 20 tonnes) shipment of
imported catfish from Viet Nam because it tested positive for residues
of banned chemicals.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has asked
for tighter management of fishery products amid warnings by major import
markets on food hygiene and safety standards of aquatic products.
The Vietnamese tra fish exports and those of many other Siluriformes
fish will have to struggle with the American Department of Agriculture
(USDA)''s final inspection rule.
