Japan agrees to resolve shrimp import issue by Year end
Updated: Sep 12, 2013 03:36:28pm
New Delhi, Sept 12 (KNN) Japan has agreed to resolve the problems faced by Indian marine exporters regarding the level of an antioxidant, Ethoxyquin in shrimps by the year end.
Ethoxuquin is a quinolone based anti-oxidant, used as a food preservative. It is an important ingredient in shrimp feed.
The detection of Ethoxyquin, in the shrimps exported to Japan had badly hit India’s export prospects to that country.
Earlier, Japan had rejected many consignments of shrimps exported from India which caused heavy losses to exporters and shrimp farmers.
The Minister of Commerce and Industry Anand Sharma raised this issue in his meeting with the visiting Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan, Toshimitsu Motegi, yesterday.
“As the standards in India meet that in other sensitive markets like EU, this matter needs to be expedited by Japan within a specific time frame,” Sharma told Motegi.
Motegi agrees to look into a solution by year end.
"We have received the request. The concerned agencies are engaged with the same. They have been asked to look into a solution by year end," Motegi said in response.
The problem had also caused fall in the prices of shrimp in the global market. This further led to the fall in export orders from the Western countries.
According to the Marine Products Export Development Authority (MPEDA) in 2012-13 “export of Frozen Shrimp decreased by 11.07 per cent in quantity terms and 21.92 per cent in dollar terms mainly due to the Ethoxyquin issue with frozen shrimp exports from India.”
Earlier, during his visit to Japan in May 2013, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh too had raised the issue in light of the fact that the move has severely affected the marine export from India.
Singh had also expressed concern over the issue of import of Indian shrimp by Japan and had hoped that the matter would be resolved soon.
In September 2012, Japan’s Food Safety Commission announced new regulations that would impose compulsory testing for Ethoxyquin in shrimp consignments. The regulations brought out in 2012 introduced health standards tolerate Ethoxyquin levels up to 0.01 ppm, down from the previous 1 ppm. (KNN)
Ethoxuquin is a quinolone based anti-oxidant, used as a food preservative. It is an important ingredient in shrimp feed.
The detection of Ethoxyquin, in the shrimps exported to Japan had badly hit India’s export prospects to that country.
Earlier, Japan had rejected many consignments of shrimps exported from India which caused heavy losses to exporters and shrimp farmers.
The Minister of Commerce and Industry Anand Sharma raised this issue in his meeting with the visiting Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan, Toshimitsu Motegi, yesterday.
“As the standards in India meet that in other sensitive markets like EU, this matter needs to be expedited by Japan within a specific time frame,” Sharma told Motegi.
Motegi agrees to look into a solution by year end.
"We have received the request. The concerned agencies are engaged with the same. They have been asked to look into a solution by year end," Motegi said in response.
The problem had also caused fall in the prices of shrimp in the global market. This further led to the fall in export orders from the Western countries.
According to the Marine Products Export Development Authority (MPEDA) in 2012-13 “export of Frozen Shrimp decreased by 11.07 per cent in quantity terms and 21.92 per cent in dollar terms mainly due to the Ethoxyquin issue with frozen shrimp exports from India.”
Earlier, during his visit to Japan in May 2013, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh too had raised the issue in light of the fact that the move has severely affected the marine export from India.
Singh had also expressed concern over the issue of import of Indian shrimp by Japan and had hoped that the matter would be resolved soon.
In September 2012, Japan’s Food Safety Commission announced new regulations that would impose compulsory testing for Ethoxyquin in shrimp consignments. The regulations brought out in 2012 introduced health standards tolerate Ethoxyquin levels up to 0.01 ppm, down from the previous 1 ppm. (KNN)
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