Two more Norwegian processing firms have been temporarily granted exceptions to the rules that allow them to process fish with quality defects outside the country, even as more companies take issue with the allowance made for Mowi and Leroy Seafood Group last week, reports e24.

The decision taken a week ago by the Norwegian Food Safety Authority was to allow Norway's two largest seafood producers to make use of overseas facilities for processing fish as COVID-19 reduced the potential processing capacity of factories within the country [...]