Japan urged to halt VN seafood inspections

The nation has made huge strides to avoid chemical contamination in seafood products in a bid to fight its way back into seafood importing markets after Japan’s June declaration to test 100% of imported seafood from Vietnam,

The nation has made huge strides to avoid chemical contamination in seafood products in a bid to fight its way back into seafood importing markets after Japan’s June declaration to test 100% of imported seafood from Vietnam, a move which has driven up costs for local seafood exporters.

According to test results obtained by National Argo Forestry Fisheries Quality Assurance Department (Nafiqad), there is no exposure to toxic chemicals such as trifluralin, chloramphenicol and nitrofurans in Vietnam’s seafood products.

Thus, concentrations of all chemicals in seafood including shrimp and tra fish are in line with the legal permits set by importers.

Southern Agency of Argo Forestry Fisheries Quality Assurance stated that most of the tests on imported seafood for chemicals like enrofloxacin and ciprofloxacin came out negative. Thus, Vietnam can promote seafood exports to the U.S, North America and Japan in the future.

Nafiqad said Japan found trifluralin present in seafood imported from Vietnam with the concentration of 0.03 parts per million (ppm), three times higher than the legal permit of below 0.01 ppp in June. It then announced that Japan would test 100% of imported seafood products.

However, after a two-month inspection in the provinces of the Mekong Delta, the country has hard evidence for proposing Japan and Canada halt inspections of all seafood shipments from Vietnam.

Source Saigon Times

Tags: Vietnam Seafood, Vietnam seafood exports