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

Russia ends suspension on 7 Vietnam seafood exporters

13:17 09/13/2014

(vasep.com.vn) Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance Service (VPSS) announced the removal of suspension on importing seafood into Russia and Eurasian Customs Union from 7 Vietnam companies, including 5 frozen Pangasius producers and 2 frozen shrimp processors.

However, National Agro – Forestry Fisheries Quality Assurance Department (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development) - NAFIQUAD requested these companies to actively contact with importers to avoid problems during importing process into Russia and Eurasian Customs Union (including Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan) especially on export items allowed, export contracts, importers recognized by VPSS …

Russia had suspended imports of Vietnamese pangasius fillets since January 31 and local exporters have attributed high food hygiene requirements to the suspension.

According to the National Agro-Forestry-Fisheries Quality Assurance Department (Nafiqad), 602 Vietnamese enterprises have been recognized as meeting food hygiene criteria for export to Europe but Russia accepts only 34 firms.