Sanitary and phytosanitary measures for Indian shrimp exports

Shrimp is the highest foreign exchange-earner in marine exports from India. It is a key contributor to the seafood export basket, accounting for 41% of quantity and 68.46% of the total earnings. During the period 1995-96 through 2017-18 significant positive growth rate was observed in shrimp exports of 7.03% in quantity 10.73% in value. Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) issues have an increasing significance in the context of international trade. The significance and importance of food safety and quality assurance hit the Indian shrimp exporters. During 2014 to 2018 the Furazolidone is the major cuase of rejection for exports in Japan markets. There are 316 rejections from FDA of US from shrimp exports of India during 2014 to 2018. These refusals were due to microbiological contaminations like the presence of Salmonella bacteria followed by antibiotics. The EU market shows the RASFF notifications towards the indian shrimp exports for the rejection of 250 shrimp consignments during the years of 2015-16 to 2017-18.