The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published information regarding entry line refusals for the month of November. The agency reported refusing a total of 129 seafood entry lines last month. Of these, 9 (7.0%) were of shrimp entry lines refused for reasons related to banned antibiotics.
With one month left in 2015, the FDA has now refused a record total of 386 entry lines of shrimp products for reasons related to banned antibiotics.
The nine entry line refusals in November principally involved shrimp manufactured by one Vietnamese company. The refusals were reported from four different FDA District Offices spread across the country:
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