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Chemical Find Prompts Call for Bar Codes on Thai Shrimp, Chicken Exports.
Byline: Wichit Chantanusornsiri
Jul. 5--The Customs Department is proposing that special bar codes should be attached to shrimp and chicken exports to guard against mislabelling by unscrupulous traders.
Chavalit Sethameteekul, director-general of the Customs Department, said bar codes would help protect the integrity of shrimp exports and help certify for foreign buyers that products were genuinely sourced from Thailand.
A recent shipment of shrimp in England was found to have exceeded nitrofuran limits by as much as eight times, part of a larger conspiracy authorities say was aimed at bypassing stringent safeguards to guard against shipments of contaminated goods.
Nitrofuran is banned by many countries, including Thailand, as a potentially cancer-causing substance. The EU limits nitrofuran to one part per billion per kilogramme, while the shipment in England was tested to have traces as high as 8.5 parts per billion per kg.
The European Union only last month announced that it would ease its testing of Thai shrimp imports. The EU had previously required 100 percent testing of all shipments, resulting in a sharp fall in exports to the European market.
But British authorities on June 24 discovered a contaminated shipment alleged to have come from Thai sources. British officials subsequently sent a protest to the Thai Embassy in London.
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