This year is believed to be a brighter year for the domestic tra fish industry with exports inching up in the first quarter, according to an official from the Viet Nam Pangasius Association.
The Food Safety and Inspection Service under the United States Department of Agriculture officially recognised Viet Nam''s Pangasius Food Safety Control System on October 31 after more than three years of negotiations.
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.
Exports of tra fish to the United States have remained stable after it imposed a demand that exporting countries demonstrate that their food safety control system is equivalent to that of the US.
The European Union (EU) will send a delegation to Viet Nam in June to inspect the country’s food safety control system for seafood products exported to the EU.