Ireland’s crab export trade with China has reduced because of cadmium testing now demanded by Chinese authorities.
The extra time involved in testing before export paperwork has made live shipments to China increasingly difficult for Irish exporters, according to Ireland’s Sea Fisheries Protection Authority (SFPA).
The SFPA said that“An export health certification regulatory regime, based on satisfactory laboratory results from per-consignment testing, has been designed to verify compliance with Chinese standards. Consignments of Irish brown crab that comply with Chinese regulatory standards have been certified by SFPA and some of those have been exported from Ireland during 2020.”