More seafood exporters licensed

VGP - The National Agro-forestry and Fisheries Quality Assurance Department (Nafiqad) under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) recently reported that more and more Vietnamese enterprises have been recognized qualified to export their products to the EU, Russia, Japan, Republic of Korea (RoK) and China.

August 08, 2009 8:10 PM GMT+7

More and more Việt Nam's seafood enterprises are able to meet foreign standards on food safety - Illustration photo

According to Nafiqad, Kim Anh Co., Ltd is another Vietnamese firm of which batches of crustaceans and cephalopods to the Japanese market are free from censorship for chemical substances and antibiotics.

Four other firms have been recognized capable to export to the RoK and China.

Based on Nafigad's statistics, Việt Nam has 300 enterprises able to export to EU, 440 to China, 30 to the Russian Federation, 60 to Brazil and 450 to Japan.

EU and Japan are Việt Nam's biggest importers of marine product.

The department assessed that made-in-Việt Nam marine products are available in hundreds of foreign markets.

Despite the global economic recession, the export turnover of seafood product stood at US $2.2 billion in the first seven month, only down 9% compared to the same period last year./.

By Kim Loan