South Korea: Sanitary agreement for Argentinian seafood

In the future, when importing aquatic products from Argentina, it is expected that there will be more products with reinforced safety measures applied. On the 11th, the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety announced that the Argentine government signed a “Korea-Argentina Aquatic Products Sanitation Agreement” with the Argentine National Agricultural Food Sanitation Quality Agency to export products that have undergone safety management, such as sanitary supervision of local aquatic product exporters. About 8,000 tons of aquatic products are imported from Argentina per year, in the order of frozen squid, skate, and stingray by weight. In particular, skates from Argentina accounted for the largest share (33.8%) of all imports into Korea as of last year. The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety has been continuously expanding the conclusion of the ‘fishery product sanitation agreement’ with the government of the exporting country in order to import safely managed seafood into Korea from the ...