Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released information regarding imports refused entry into the United States for the month of September. In total, the agency reported refusing 116 seafood entry lines last month. Of these, only 2 (1.7%) were of shrimp entry lines refused for reasons related to banned antibiotics.
This was the lowest number of refusals of shrimp for reasons related to banned antibiotics since January. For the year, there have been 112 total entry lines of shrimp for banned antibiotics.
The shrimp entry lines refused by the FDA in September were from India and China and were reported by two different FDA districts:
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