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

Australia to launch campaign to correct misconceptions

14:19 08/08/2014

(vasep.com.vn) Australian Television ABC has recently broadcasted a programme on Vietnam's aquaculture farms in which presents positive comments on seafood imported from Vietnam.

Through it, Australian experts and importers said that Vietnam seafood products, including shrimp and pangasius, are favoured in Australia.

Vietnam pangasius is the second best seller in the Australian market, just behind Tasmanian Atlantic tuna, the programme reported.

Vietnam aquatic products are reared, processed and exported under international sanitation requirements. Products exported by Vietnam's major seafood exporters are put into the list of the best products in Australia.

However, some Australian consumers have misunderstanding about the quality of Vietnam seafood because they think that cheap-price products often have low quality, according to Norman Grant, Chairman of the Australian Seafood Importers Association.

Last year, Australia imported US$160 million worth of Vietnam seafood and the figure is expected to exceed US$200 million in 2014.