GENERAL INFORMATION

Quality control

Quality control and food safety assurance have always been one of the most important task for Vietnam seafood, especially in processing and exporting.

The fishery sector in recent years have been developing towards sustainability, ensuring exported seafood products can be easy for traceability and well – controlled quality in the whole chain production from seeds to finished products.

Seafood quality and food safety is managed in the chain transferred from Control of Final Products from 80s of last century to Control of Production Process (today).

Chemicals and Residues Monitoring

Residues Monitoring Program for Certain Harmful Substances in aquaculture fish and products implemented since 2000 in over the country including concentrated aquaculture areas, species with large yield, all crops in all year round. These results are recognized by the U.S, EU, South Korea..

Post harvest seafood quality and safety monitoring program implemented since 2009 in over the country including fishing seafood, aquaculture products (criteria and species not included by the Residues Monitoring Program for Certain Harmful Substances in aquaculture fish and products).

Up to now, almost Vietnamese plants have been meeting national standards of hygiene, 100% plants applied HACCP, 692 EU-qualified (EU code) plants and many factories applied GMP, SSOP.

List of Vietnam seafood producers qualified to export to markets

List of Vietnam seafood producers qualified to export to markets (Updated: May 2024)
No	Export markets	Update time
1	South Korean	2 Feb 2016
2	China	8 Feb 2021
3	Argentine	18 Oct 2017
4	El Salvado	4 March 2016
5	List of bivalve molluck processors exporting to EU	18 May 2021
6	Taiwan	25 Nov 2019
7	Updated list of fishery processing establishments approved by NAFIQAD for export	27 Oct 2023

30% of VietGAP certified aquaculture farms in 2015

11:36 12/12/2014

(vasep.com.vn) By 2015 there will be 30% of intensive, semi-intensive farms and aquaculture systems that are VietGAP certified and this percentage in 2020 will be 80%.

The application of VietGAP standards is considered crucial measures to minimize the negative impacts of aquaculture, to develop sustainable farming; and to enhance product value and , to promote export activities.

Pangasius and shrimp, two major farmed species, are equally economically efficient. Pangasius production reached 1.1 million MT with total farming area of 5,200 ha while brackish water shrimp yeild was 550,000 MT from the total farming area of 666,000 ha. Mekong Delta is the largest area of farming these species.