The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released detailed data regarding fifty-seven (57) seafood entry line refusals in October, of which five (8.8%) were for shrimp for reasons related to banned antibiotics, along with an additional entry line refusal of shrimp for the same reason in September that was not previously reported. …
Shrimp is, far and away, the most popular seafood in America. As NOAA Fisheries explains, “now about one-quarter of the seafood Americans eat is shrimp.” Yet, despite Americans’ love of shrimp, the U.S. shrimp industry is struggling. NOAA Fisheries notes that despite the fact that landings volumes were roughly the same in 2023 as they were in 2022, “[p]reliminary data from the Gulf of Mexico show that the industry sold $329 million of wild-caught shrimp in 2022 and that revenue dropped to $204 million in 2023 – a 38 percent drop.” …
Under the program, the State Department, working with officials from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (“NOAA”) Fisheries, certifies countries and/or individual fisheries as being in compliance with Section 609’s requirements and therefore eligible to supply the U.S. market with shrimp. …
Commissioner Alvaro Bedoya of the Federal Trade Commission, along with attorney advisor Max Miller, met with members of the U.S. shrimp industry in Mississippi and Alabama this month to learn about the American shrimp market and hear about misleading marketing practices in the foodservice sector that have undermined the ability to sell domestic, wild-caught shrimp. …
On May 20, 2024, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published an updated Import Alert 16-129, “Detention Without Physical Examination of Seafood Products Due to Nitrofurans,” to now include Choice Canning Company Unit II (A Division of Choice Trading Corporation Pvt Ltd). With the FDA’s announcement, the Choice Canning processing plant joins twelve other Indian shrimp processing plants on the Import Alert. …
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