US food authority stops shrimps from some Malaysian exporters due to use of antibiotics

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GEORGE TOWN (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - The United States Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) last year put many Malaysian shrimp exporters on a 'red list' after samples of 18 shipments from 11 Malaysian exporters were detected to contain chloramphenicol.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

GEORGE TOWN - The United States Food and Drug Administration last year put many Malaysian shrimp exporters on a 'red list' after samples of 18 shipments from 11 Malaysian exporters were detected to contain chloramphenicol.

Market traders prefer to sell shrimps farmed in the wild, rather than farmed ones which could contain these antiobiotics."It is easy to tell them apart. Wild shrimp are pink or pale and vary in sizes. Farmed ones are grey and are usually the same size." "We called it the Early Mortality Syndrome . In just 30 days, nearly all of the shrimps died after being put in the growing ponds," he said, adding that farmed shrimps would usually take 70 to 100 days to reach harvestable sizes.

 

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