Seafood
The Food and Drug Administration is updating its listing and certificate procedures for seafood products exported to the European Union.
To satisfy new EU certification requirements prohibiting the use of certain antibiotics for growth promotion or for human medicine that apply to seafood products, the FDA will be collecting declarations of non-use from seafood facilities exporting to the EU. These declarations will be uploaded into the FDA Export Listing Module application for each affected facility and will facilitate the issuance by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the required certificate for seafood products exported by that facility.
In addition, NOAA will be updating its industry guidance on how to request the new simplified certificate for export of seafood products to the EU.
Seafood products exported to the EU after Sept. 3, 2026, will need to be accompanied by a certificate issued using the new FDA and NOAA procedures described above.
Plums and Blueberries
The Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is accepting comments through Sept. 3 on draft pest risk assessments regarding a request from the government of Chile to reevaluate import requirements for plum and blueberry fruit following a change in the pest profile for these commodities.
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