The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reported refusing 112 seafood entry lines in June 2015. Of these, 29 (26%) were of shrimp entry lines refused for reasons related to banned antibiotics.
Through the first half of 2015, the FDA has now refused a total of 232 entry lines of shrimp products for reasons related to banned antibiotics. There have now been more shrimp entry lines refused in 2015 than any previous year for which data are available through the FDA’s Operational and Administrative System for Import Support (OASIS) database.
With only one exception, the entry line refusals for June were of shrimp shipped from Malaysia:
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