NOAA to Stop Issuing Export Health Certificates for Farmed Scallop Shipments to EU
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will no longer issue export health certifications to the European Union for farm-raised scallops, it said in a Feb. 6 memorandum from the NOAA Seafood Inspection Program. NOAA was recently informed by the EU…
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that neither the U.S. nor China is authorized to export farmed scallops "or the species Argopecten irradians to the EU,” the agency said. “To be clear, the United States is not officially authorized to certify transshipped molluscan shellfish from a third country, nor is the U.S. authorized to certify molluscan shellfish shipped to the EU. The sole exception is an allowance to certify adductor muscles of wild-caught (not farmed) scallops from a third country. Therefore SIP will no longer issue export health certification to the EU for farm-raised Chinese scallops. If conditions change, we will alert all concerned,” NOAA said.