CHINA BAN
May 1st, 2002
BY ALAN OSBORNTHE EUROPEAN Union has lifted a ban on the imports of certain fish, (including farmed fish), and fish products from China following the presentation of new information by the Chinese authorities and the favourable results of tests carried out by the EU Food and Veterinary Office.The ban, which had been announced in March, followed the detection of chloramphenicol in certain aquaculture and fishery products and unspecified shortcomings identified during a Commission inspection visit to China.It applied to whole farmed and wild fish, gutted and ...
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