The Southern Shrimp Alliance opposes the use of banned antibiotics in shrimp aquaculture. Beyond undermining consumer confidence in the wholesomeness of shrimp in the U.S. market, the use of banned antibiotics unethically reduces production costs for farmed shrimp by shifting risks from the producer to the consumer.
The Southern Shrimp Alliance has made the continued presence of banned antibiotics in shrimp imports a point of emphasis in large part because the problem is limited to and concentrated with particular aquaculture industries. The fact that many shrimp farming countries refuse to tolerate the use of banned antibiotics in their aquaculture is evidenced by a lack of detection of such antibiotics in their shipments to the United States, Canada, the European Union, Japan, and Australia. Like U.S. shrimp producers, shrimp farming industries that have taken affirmative steps to eliminate the use of antibiotics in aquaculture are adversely impacted by their continued use in a small number of countries.
The Southern Shrimp Alliance has therefore highlighted and publicized the continued detection of banned antibiotics in farmed shrimp exported from China, Vietnam, India, Malaysia, and Bangladesh. Further, the organization’s work in this area has pointedly emphasized that problems may be traced back to a small number of market participants in each of these countries.
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