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Seafood processing companies plan to meet early this week to discuss the possible impacts of the FDA’s decision on Vietnam’s seafood exports to the US and solutions to the problem.

As FDA has announced, all consignments of farmed seafood sourced from China, including shrimp, catfish, eel, red-eyed carp, will be strictly examined. The imports will be detained at border gates for examination to find out if there are residues of prohibited substances not allowed to be used in aquaculture in the US.

Explaining its decision, FDA said that it had abundant evidence showing that Chinese farmed seafood products contained prohibited substances. David Acheson, Assistant Commissioner for Food Protection at FDA, said that the agency would only allow the admittance of imports that could meet the food hygiene requirements set by the US.
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