US FDA cracks down on India's shrimp shipments over banned antibiotics

Shrimp sourced from India accounts for more than one out of every three pounds of shrimp imported into the US

Barely a month after bringing shrimp under the purview of the Seafood Import Monitoring Program (SIMP), the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cracked down on Indian shrimp shipments for use of banned antibiotics. 
 

The US is the largest market for Indian shrimp exporters and accounts for about 32 per cent of total seafood exports from the country.

"Last month (in January), the FDA refused 26 shrimp entry lines for reasons related to banned antibiotics. All 26 were of shrimps shipped from India. These (26) entry lines represented 14.9 per cent of the 175 total seafood entry lines refused