Only one shipment of imported shrimp was refused entry to the US in October on suspicion of banned antibiotics, the lowest rate in three years, food safety regulators said
The US Food and Drug Administration said that in October there were 142 seafood entry lines refused entry in the US, of which only one instance, a shipment from Vietnam, saw shrimp refused for banned antibiotics, the Southern Shrimp Alliance said in a release.
That reflects the lowest rate of antibiotic-related shrimp refusals since October 2013.
"But the small number of reported refusals for shrimp contaminated with banned antibiotics does not appear to indicate that the use of antibiotics has been eliminated from shrimp farming. To the contrary, other major shrimp importing countries reported significant action regarding shrimp imports last month," the release said [...]
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