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‘Take steps to reduce contamination in seafood’
Staff Reporter
Tuticorin: Marine exporters should adopt integrated control measures to reduce contamination in seafood products if they want to enhance the unit value of their produces in foreign niche markets, according to A.G. Ponniah, Director, Central Institute of Brackishwater Aquaculture (CIBA), Chennai.
Inaugurating a national seminar on ‘Emerging issues in quality and safety of fin and shell fish’ organised by Fisheries College and Research Institute here on Thursday, he said that adoption of good management practices at each level of the supply chain and stricter implementation of quality control protocols practiced internationally, would help the entrepreneurs to bring down the chemical residue contents in fish and fish products.
Rejection
“The fin and shell fish processed under hygienic conditions will thus help the exporters to reduce the chances of rejection of consignments at the export market,” he said.
V. Purushothamman, Director of Research, Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, said that it was the need of the hour to establish more ‘accredited quality control laboratories’ in the country, to enhance the share in global seafood exports.
He said that steps would be taken to obtain accreditation for the three quality control laboratories functioning under the ambit of TANUVAS, from the National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories (NABL), shortly. At present, Animal Feed and Quality Control Lab in Namakkal, Centre for Animal Feed and Food Residue Lab in Chennai and Quality Assurance Laboratory for Aqua products in Tuticorin, have only ISO certification.
V.K. Venkataramani, Dean, FCRI, said that the country’s share in the global seafood export remains at a mere 1.4 per cent mainly owing to appreciable rejection of produces by various importing nations citing poor quality and lesser production of exportable fish products.
He said that foreign exchange earning from the seafood exports too dropped to Rs.7,200 crore last year vis-À-vis Rs. 8,000 crore registered in the previous year.
About 100 scholars, scientists and lecturers participated.
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