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The Trump administration has launched a domestic seafood label and promotional website to encourage Americans to buy domestic products and tackle the problem of imported seafood fraud through testing and enforcement.
trump The government launched the domestic seafood label on the 23rd to inform consumers that seafood was caught within the country and to strengthen seafood production in the United States.
white House reported that US Health Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. announced at a campaign event in Fort Myers, Florida that the US Food and Drug Administration (fda ) with the goal of restoring the competitiveness of American aquatic products, the U.S. As part of the Priority Seafood Strategy, launched a voluntary domestic seafood label to help consumers identify whether the aquatic product was caught within the country.
Robert Kennedy Jr. said, “For more than 40 years, I have been committed to protecting the waters and fishery resources that support the livelihoods of American fishing communities. Under President Trump’s leadership, the FDA is providing U.S. producers clearer ways for consumers to identify domestically produced seafood, while strengthening efforts to crack down on imported seafood that is undercooked and misleading to consumers.”
The Trump administration also launched the Seafood.gov website to promote domestically produced seafood in the United States.
The FDA routinely inspects “ice-packing” of imported aquatic products, that is, the industry coats the surface of frozen aquatic products with ice. Some operators take advantage of excessively thick ice layers to mark up the net weight of their products with water, causing consumers to purchase less seafood than they actually should.
The FDA found that 46% of the imported aquatic products sampled and tested had actual weights less than the labeled weight, and some products were as much as 32.8% less than the labeled weight.
“When Americans buy seafood, they deserve to get pure, authentic, high-quality nutritious food, not contaminated or counterfeit products,” FDA Acting Commissioner Kyle Diamantas said in a statement.
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The main objective is to allow consumers to clearly identify seafood caught within the country as well as strengthen the competitiveness of US seafood production. It is part of the US Priority Seafood Strategy.
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FDA will routinely test ice packaging of imported aquatic products to investigate whether excessively thick ice layers are used to increase weight and distort the net weight indication, and will step up efforts to crack down on businesses that under- or under-weight.
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The FDA conducted a sample and found that the actual weight of 46% of the imported aquatic products tested was less than the labeled weight, and some products were even 32.8% less than the labeled weight, indicating that water filling is quite common.
