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

Ben Tre: Effective management for marine shrimp

09:48 11/25/2014

(vasep.com.vn) In 2014, aquaculture farms covers the area of 47,202 hectares. In particular, marine shrimp farming area was 35,953 hectares, including 10,694 hectares of intensive and semi-intensive shrimp farms. In these 10,694 hectares, 86% was for whiteleg shrimp, and the other is for black tiger shrimp. Other shrimp farming methods were applied in 25,259 hectares.

Total aquaculture production was estimated at 245,300 MT up 2.8% year on year. Particularly, marine shrimp production reached 54,300 MT, up 3.8% compared to the same period in 2013.

To achieve these results, multiple measures were implemented to restrict diseases and improve production efficiency. The province also invested in infrastructure and enhanced bio-product management.

Seafood industry was restructured. Various standards, namely VietGAP and GlobalGAP have been applied in marine shrimp farming to promote both quality and sustainability. In Ben Tre, there is 1 GlobalGAP certified farm, 1 ASC certified farm and 1 applying high tech in farming.

In 2015, total aquaculture area in the province is expected be 46.8 thousand hectares with 10 thousand hectares for intensive and semi-intensive marine shrimp farming, 80% of which is for vannamei. Total aquaculture production is forecast to be 251.5 thousand MT with 56 thousand MT of marine shrimp.