Zhoushan revitalizes the reputation of aquatic products based on the return of frozen shrimp

Introduction: Zhoushan City, Zhejiang Province, took the "return of frozen shrimp" incident as a lesson, strictly controlled the quality of aquatic products, and revitalized Zhoushan's reputation for exporting aquatic products With China's accession to the WTO, the technical barriers of foreign trade to China's export products have increased dramatically Since the second half of last year, two batches of frozen shrimp exported to the European Union in Zhoushan City have been detected to contain 0.2g of chloramphenicol, resulting in hundreds of tons of frozen shrimp forced to return After investigation, chloramphenicol was brought in by the workers who peeled shrimp to stop itching Xinhua News Agency published a release on January 3 entitled "warning of return of frozen shrimp", which disclosed the incident and attracted wide attention Zhoushan "return of frozen shrimps" incident caused great attention from leaders of the State Council and party and government leaders of Zhejiang Province and Zhoushan City Zhang Dejiang, Secretary of the Zhejiang provincial Party committee, made a comment on the incident and asked that it be taken as a reference to improve the competitiveness of export products Wang Huizhong, Secretary of Zhoushan Municipal Party committee, and Zhang Jiameng, mayor of Zhoushan, also made it clear that in order to ensure the sustainable and healthy development of Zhoushan and even the national aquatic products export, we must learn from the "return of frozen shrimp" incident, take effective measures to solve it, and comprehensively improve the competitiveness of aquatic products export Zhoushan is an important aquatic product export base in China Its aquatic products are exported to 36 countries and regions, of which frozen shrimp accounts for more than 60% of the national export The event of "return of frozen shrimps" has undoubtedly sounded an alarm for the export of aquatic products in China After finding out the reasons, Zhoushan Municipal government and relevant departments immediately took comprehensive rectification measures, requiring all employees who are engaged in processing and exporting shrimp to work with gloves, and at the same time, severely cracking down on the illegal acts of registered factories purchasing products from non registered factories for export or using registered factories to produce export products The city also stopped the export inspection of two aquatic product processing plants detected chloramphenicol and notified the city Municipal inspection and quarantine, health and other departments also carry out health education for employees, strengthen supervision of production process, and standardize sampling inspection Zhoushan City will also encourage aquatic products processing enterprises to pass the official assessment of the European Union, the United States, South Korea, etc., as an important means to cope with the challenges of entering the WTO At present, 14 aquatic products processing enterprises and 2 processing ships have been registered in the European Union, 17 aquatic products processing enterprises and 2 processing ships have passed the review of the U.S Food and drug administration, and 75 aquatic products processing enterprises have been approved to register in South Korea It is reported that Zhoushan frozen shrimp has gradually resumed export to the EU.