VASEP Warns Enterprises of Improving Quality of Seafood Exported to Japan

According to a report from the Ministry of Fisheries, Vietnam’s seafood export turnover in October reached around US$270 million, bringing a total export turnover of ten months of 2005 to US$ 2.199 billion, equal to 87.96 per cent of the yearly plan and up by 14.67 per cent against that of one year earlier.

 

The developments of the world seafood market were complicated with prices of some items tending to fall. In 2005, Vietnam’s seafood export suffered many impacts of markets, in particular the American market. The situation has recently seen positive signs. Many Asian markets have constrained the import of fresh water seafood from China due to a high antibiotic residue. Since October, 2005, Japan has tested animal-based food and seafood products relating to nitrofuran antibiotics and nitrofuran conductivity. AOZ (3-amino-2-oxazole) and SEM (semicarbazide).

 

The Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP) has warned Vietnamese enterprises of improving the quality of their products, testing antibiotic residue of seafood products exported to Japan, so as to avoid any goods return and being blacklisted by Japan.