Indian Shrimp Refusals For Antibiotics Establish Record; First Thai Shrimp Refused For Antibiotics Since 2005
June 7, 2016 | 1 min to read
On Sunday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released details regarding imports refused entry into the United States for the month of May. In total, the agency reported refusing 179 seafood entry lines last month. Of these, 9 (5.0%) were of shrimp entry lines refused for reasons related to banned antibiotics.
In the first five months of this year, the FDA has reported refusing almost as many shrimp entry lines for banned antibiotics (54) as in all of 2012 (55).
The nine entry line refusals in May involved two companies and were reported by two different regional offices of the FDA:
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