The management and control of seafood safety and hygiene at Vietnam’s processing factories impressed Japanese experts. As per news report a delegation from the Pharmaceutical and Food Safety Bureau (PFSB) under the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare is currently in Vietnam to inspect the country’s seafood safety and hygiene system.
The delegation is said to focus on assessing the management and distribution of veterinary medicines as well as the control of forbidden chemical and antibiotic residues in Vietnam seafood products exported to Japan. The report informed that the delegation will examine five seafood processing factories and fishing ports in Phan Thiet in the central province of Binh Thuan.
The National Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Quality Administrative Directorate of Vietnam (NAFIQAD) has assured cooperation in assessing the department’s capacity to respond to the results of inspections to avoid a double inspection on Vietnam’s seafood exported to Japan, looking toward the signing of a cooperation agreement in controlling the quality of seafood import-export products between the two countries.
