Shipments of EU-flagged seafood exporters halted Trung Chanh CAN THO – The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has stopped licensing seafood shipments by exporters that have been blocked by the European Union (EU) for containing banned substances in their products. According to the ministry’s Decision 3328/QD-BNN-QLCL, which took effect on Monday, disqualified exporters can take back their export licenses if they provide satisfactory explanations about the EU suspension of their shipments. They also need to provide solutions to the situation and pass quality tests conducted by Vietnam’s National Agro-Forestry-Fisheries Quality Assurance Department (Nafiqad) under the ministry. The European Commission’s (EC) Directorate General for Health & Food Safety wrote to Nafiqad on August 2 saying that the EU had decided to remove a Vietnamese seafood exporter whose name remains undisclosed from the list of exporters allowed in the EU. The sanction was … [Read more...] about Shipments of EU-flagged seafood exporters halted
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EU alarms four seafood exporters over food safety
EU alarms four seafood exporters over food safety Trung Chanh By Trung Chanh - The Saigon Times Daily CAN THO - Some member states of the European Union (EU) have given warnings to four exporters in Vietnam over seafood food safety, according to the National Agro-Forestry-Fisheries Quality Assurance Department (Nafiqad). Nafiqad, an agency of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, said the Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) of the Directorate General for Health and Food Safety under the European Commission (EC) has detected forbidden food additives and substances in seafood shipped to the EU by the four firms. Mekong Delta Food Enterprise under Can Tho Export-Import Seafood Joint Stock Co was warned of ammoniac smell and sodium carbonates (E500) in its frozen tra fish shipments, Southern Fishery Industries Ltd Co of sodium erythorbate (E316) in frozen tra fish, Foodtech Joint Stock Co of histamine in canned tuna, and Khang Thong Joint Stock Co of mercury in … [Read more...] about EU alarms four seafood exporters over food safety
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The tragedy of seafood exporters in southwestern region
VietNamNet Bridge - These days the number of seafood processing workers in Tra Noc Industrial Zone (Can Tho City) and Trung Hoa Industrial Zone (Ca Mau) have been reducing. Along Highway 1A, passing the largest shrimp breeding area in Vietnam -- consisting of Soc Trang, Bac Lieu and Ca Mau, one will not see bustling markets serving workers after the working hours as a few years ago. This is a signal of insecurity for the fishery sector, although there are a few giants have successfully restructured their debts, restored production and targeted to earn tens of millions of US dollars of export revenue in the next two years. The signboard of Gia Khang Seafood Company in Can Tho City is added with the signboard of Nam My company because Gia Khang has been producing aquatic products for Nam My for nearly 2 years to maintain operations. Photo: VNE At Tra Noc Industrial Zone, the An Khang Import and Export Co., Ltd. still opens but it has only 70 workers and their boss Tran Hong Quan. … [Read more...] about The tragedy of seafood exporters in southwestern region
Seafood export to focus on processed products
BTO - Since the beginning of the year 2012, Binh Thuan's seafood export turnover has reached rather good results compared with the same period last year in spite of adverse effects from a lot of objective factors. From now until the end of this year, the seafood processing and export development program will be mainly concentrated on processed seafood which is considered as an advantageous product in order to finish and exceed the year plan. According to Ms Do Thi Huong - head of seafood business division (Department of Agriculture and Rural Development), in the past months, seafood export was slowed down due to many problems such as shortage of raw material, increasing input costs and many fishing boats were suspended from exploitation. However, seafood processing enterprises made every effort to maintain production, ensure stable income for employees and gain confidence in customers. In the past ten months, seafood export turnover of the whole … [Read more...] about Seafood export to focus on processed products