Insufficient controls on Canadian seafood destined for Europe

The audit highlighted significant gaps in the control system for Canadian seafood exported to the EU. Despite a structured system, the low frequency of inspections and sampling undermines its effectiveness, raising concerns about the North American country’s food safety practices. Auditors from the Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety (DG Sante) found that while there is a comprehensive system in place to control establishments and factory vessels exporting seafood to the EU, operational effectiveness is compromised by: Gaps in the supervision of field inspectors’ activities; Failure to implement risk-based inspection and sampling plans. Gaps in the supervision of field inspectors’ activities; Failure to implement risk-based inspection and sampling plans. Major imports and previous notifications The most commonly imported seafood from Canada to the EU include crustaceans and frozen fish, such as American lobster, shrimp, Greenland halibut, North Pacific hake and ...