Indonesian Shrimp Most Often Flagged by FDA in Short-Weighting Crackdown

FDA Sampling of Indonesian Shrimp Confirms Short-Weighting Risk

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) released the results of the agency’s sampling of seafood to test for economically motivated adulteration through short-weighting. The practice of overstating the net quantity of the content of the seafood, such as including the weight of ice glaze in addition to the seafood itself, is a form of economically motivated adulteration resulting in consumers receiving significantly less product than what i…

Indonesian shrimp most often flagged by FDA in short-weighting crackdown

The federal agency found that most violative frozen seafood imports were shrimp, with Indonesia accounting for the majority of rejected shipmentsStill at

FPSA - FDA Sampling Finds One-Third of Imported Ice-Glazed Seafood Products to be Fraudulent

In a testing and sampling assignment conducted from 2022–2024 to determine the prevalence of economically motivated adulteration among imported frozen seafood, FDA found that 36 percent of the samples were violative for short weighting. Read MoreThe post FDA Sampling Finds One-Third of Imported Ice-Glazed Seafood Products to be Fraudulent appeared first on FPSA.