All catfish shipments to US subject to examination
All batches of products made from Siluriformes fish supposed to be shipped to the US will have to undergo food safety tests from August 2, 2017 instead of September 1, 2017,according to the National Agro-Forestry-Fisheries Quality Assurance Department (NAFIQAD).
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According to the announcement of the US Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), all shipments will be checked at the official in-house test facilities. The US importers will have to submit the test forms to FSIS before their shipments arrive at the country’s border gates, so that FSIS will conduct tests at the given facility.
According to the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP), the US is currently the second biggest importer of Vietnamese tra fish, behind China.
In the first four months of this year, Vietnam’s total export value of tra fish to the US stood at US$90.2 million, a year-on-year drop of 21.7%.