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 December 2015, there are 612 plants meeting national standards of hygiene, 100% plants applied HACCP, 461 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: Nov 2015)
No	Export markets	Update time	Proposed update time
1	Europe (EU)	6 Jan 2016	26 Jan 2016
2	South Korean	2 Feb 2016	26 Jan 2016
3	China	1 Feb 2016	26 Jan 2016
4	Brazil	22 Dec 2015
5	Argentine	28 Jan 2016
6	Ukraine (list of pangasius producers)	9 Jan 2014
7	Eurasian Economic Union (Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Armenia, Kyryzstan)	21 Jun 2015
8	El Salvado		7 May 2010
9	List of bivalve molluck processors exporting to EU	8 Dec 2015
10	List of seasoned dried leather jacket fish processors exporting to Korea	25 Dec 2015	25 Dec 2015
11	The list of exporters qualified for food safety assurance (updated by Vietnam customs)	2 Feb 2016
12	List of processors eligible in exporting pangasius to the US.	9 Mar 2016

Pilot programe of eletronic certificates for seafood exported to EU

16:59 04/28/2015

(vasep.com.vn) MARD has allowed pilot program on granting electronic certificates for seafood exports to the European Union (EU) on Trade Control and Expert System (TRACES).

TRACES is a trans-European web-based network for veterinary health that notifies, certifies and monitors imports, exports and trade in animals and animal products around the world.

According to National Agro-Forestry-Fisheres Quality Assurance Department (Nafiqad), electronic certification shall be applied to all processed seafood exported to the EU.

The pilot period will start from 5th April 2015 with basic information.