The United States Food and Drug Administration audit on fishing establishments in Argentina

The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) values transparency as a core value and maintains ties with the health agencies of those countries that export food to the United States based on facility inspections to ensure safety. food. A representative of the FDA is in Argentina where he is carrying out a series of audits in different productive establishments that prepare food and export to that country, among which were fish refrigerators in Mar del Plata. Robert Calais, an FDA investigator who arrived in the country, verified the conditions of the plants that are exported to the United States. In each establishment, the audit took two days to complete and covered all the processes of the production chain: arrival of raw material, reprocessing, freezing, packaging and labeling of the merchandise. According to the list that this medium had access to, in the last two weeks the FDA delegation visited the companies Isla de los Estados, Apolo Fish, Lacar Fish, Coomarpes, ...