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Seafood safety monitoring programmes

Seafood safety //

The main objective for the Norwegian authorities is to ensure food safety. One prerequisite for safe seafood is to monitor undesirable substances, such as organic contaminants, residues from pharmaceuticals for aquaculture, microorganisms and parasites in wild-caught or farmed seafood, and in fish feed.

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Control of fish feed and feed producers

Feed 2 Photo: National Institute of Nutrition and Seafood Research
Seafood safety //

On behalf of the Norwegian Food Safety Authority, NIFES undertakes an annual surveillance programme of feeding stuffs and feed for fish and other aquatic animals to ensure compliance with Norwegian and EU legislation. The programme further aims at gaining knowledge on substances where upper limit has not yet been established. The programme has been in operation since 1996.

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Pharmaceuticals for farmed fish

Seafood safety //

Norway has an elaborated system for control and monitoring of pharmaceuticals used for the treatment of disease of farmed fish. This system ensures that seafood products do not contain residues of illegal pharmaceuticals or residues of legal substances above internationally accepted levels (MRLs).

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Monitoring of shellfish production

Kamskjell Photo: NIFES
Seafood safety //

The Norwegian Food Safety Authorities’ monitoring programme for shellfish started in 1999 in order to ensure that the hygienic quality of shellfish for human consumption complies with EU and Norwegain legislation.

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Infectious matter, zoonotic agents and parasites

Seafood safety //

The possibility of transmitting undesirable infectious agents from fish and seafood to consumers are rare. There are – as far as foodstuff originating from birds and mammals are concerned – very few infectious agents, so-called zoonotic agents, that can be passed on to humans. There are so far no known bacteria or viruses that produce diseases both among Norwegian coldwater species of fish, she...

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The Norwegian Ministry of Fisheries and Coastal Affairs

Telephone: +47 22 24 90 90
Fax: +47 22 24 95 85
E-mail: postmottak@fkd.dep.no

P.O. Box 8118 Dep,
N-0032 Oslo

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