South Korea: Sanitation certificate mandatory when importing seafood from Spain

From now on, when marine products such as Spanish rockfish and frozen squid are brought into the country, the Spanish government will be required to attach a health certificate from the exporting country. The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety announced on the 25th that the ‘Korea-Spain Fishery Products Sanitation Agreement’ was signed with the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (MAPA) in Madrid, Spain, on June 24. The seafood hygiene agreement is a system that assigns responsibility and obligation to the government of the exporting country to import safely managed marine products from the local production stage in the exporting country. Korea has signed agreements with a total of 12 countries, including Spain. Fishery products imported from countries that have signed the agreement account for approximately 78.3% of total fishery product imports. The marine products imported into Korea from Spain are, by weight, in the order of frozen Atlantic red rockfish, ...