As a consequence, all seafood shipments are qualified, and no shipment has been reported to contain antibiotic residues.

Hai Phong’s Department of Agriculture and Rural Development has complied with the instructions of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) on ensuring hygiene and safety during fishing, farming and seafood processing, jointly organizing campaigns to popularize regulations on no use of banned chemicals and antibiotics in production and trading seafood to fishing vessel owners, purchasing units, processing plants, etc. to strengthen inspection on hygiene and food safety assurance in farming and processing units.

It is shown that most of local seafood companies have complied with the industry’s regulations and standards on hygiene and food safety, such as Ha Long Canned Food Co., F42 Processing Factory (Hai Phong Seafood Export Processing Co.,), Ha Long 2 Export Processing Factory, Ha Long Seafood Processing Factory, Seasafico’s Hai Phong Branch, Cat Hai Seafood Processing Co., etc. (VietFishNews)