Bangladesh imports machine for antibiotic test of frozen products

Bangladesh has imported a machine to conduct antibiotic test on frozen fish and shrimps to maintain their quality up to global standard so as to increase foreign exchange earnings from the fisheries sector.

The Bangladesh Frozen Foods Exporters Association imported the machine at a cost of about 40 million taka (about 600,000 U.S. dollars), a press release said Sunday.

The imported machine will be maintained and operated by the Fish Products Inspection and Standard Control Department of the Fisheries Ministry.

In the absence of the LC-MS-MS machine in Bangladesh, exporters of frozen foods had to send samples of their products abroad for antibiotic testing.

Addressing a function on the occasion of handing over the machine to Fisheries Department Sunday, Fisheries and Livestock Minister Abdullah Al Noman said the reputation and credibility of Bangladeshi exporters of frozen shrimps and fish would now be kept thanks to the machine.

He also appreciated the initiative of public-private partnership in importing the machine.

Source: Xinhua