Jeonbuk Province Strengthens Safety Inspection Items for Seafood Starting April

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Seon-gang] Jeonbuk Province announced on the 3rd that starting from April 1, due to the revision and enforcement of the "Standards and Specifications for Food (KFDA Notice)," if any of the five prohibited substances including ▲three fluoroquinolone antibiotics (norfloxacin, ofloxacin, pefloxacin) ▲gentian violet ▲methylene blue are detected in the seafood safety investigation results, all will be subject to "disposal."

The seafood safety investigation, conducted to ensure safety at the production stage, is carried out considering species and items with repeated recent nonconformities: ▲once a year for flatfish ▲once within three years for eel, spotted seabass, trout, and loach ▲once within five years for other species, investigating 89 items including heavy metals.

The province stated that if nonconforming items are detected in this investigation, necessary measures such as shipment delay, change of use, or disposal will be taken, urging aquaculture farms to exercise special caution.

In particular, the province plans to strengthen seafood safety management by mandating annual inspections for aquaculture farms where nonconforming items have occurred in the past five years, and for farms where prohibited substances were detected, mandatory inspections every two months for one year.

Gil Hae-jin, Director of the Marine Fisheries Policy Division of Jeonbuk Province, said, "The newly added items are antibiotics that were either added to feed or used as treatments for infectious diseases, so please recheck the components before supplying feed," and added, "We urge the use of only approved aquaculture medicines."

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