Quarantine Centers to Increase Vigilance
The Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Ministry will begin implementing a test for parasites in frozen and canned fish products to improve caution and vigilance over imported raw ingredients and canned fish products.
Officers of Pekanbaru City Food and Drug Supervisory Center show the packaging of imported canned fish products that were proven to contain worms in Pekanbaru city, Riau, on Wednesday (21/3). Laboratory test results show three brands of imported canned fish products from China contained Anisakis worms. Importers were ordered to immediately recall all products from circulation to prevent people from consuming the contaminated goods.
JAKARTA, KOMPAS – The Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Ministry will begin implementing a test for parasites in frozen and canned fish products to improve caution and vigilance over imported raw ingredients and canned fish products.
Widodo Sumiyanto, head of the quality control center at the ministry’s National Agency for Fish Quarantine, Quality Control and Fishery Products Safety (BKIPM), said on Saturday (31/3) in Jakarta that in January, the agency had sent circulars to regional fish quarantine centers to implement tests on imported frozen and canned fish products to detect the presence of parasitic animals.