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

Mekong Delta increases the area of farming pangasius towards GAP

16:43 02/24/2020

(seafood.vasep.com.vn) From traditional farming area, now pangasius farmers have boldly invested, converted to production under the model of Good Agricultural Practice (GAP).

Up to now, the Mekong Delta has more than 3,700ha of pangasius farming area under GAP model, accounting for about 70% of the total pangasius farming area of the whole region. An Giang province is one of the pioneers and effective implementation of this model with more than 450ha of pangasius farming area in the direction of VietGAP, GlobalGAP, ASC and BAP.

The shift from traditional and small-scale production to concentrated production, following the food safety and hygiene process, traceability of famer will improve the value and competitiveness of Vietnamese pangasius products.