A visit by a delegation from the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food of the Republic of Guatemala concluded on Monday (29,07.2019) which ratified the continuity of exports of fishery products from Argentina after satisfactorily evaluating Argentina's safety control system for this type of production.
This was announced by the National Service of Health and Agri-Food Quality (Senasa), after a meeting in Buenos Aires, with the Guatemalan inspectors who stated that More than 50 Argentine fish processing plants are still authorized to export their production to this Central American destination, started about seven years ago.
“Guatemala inspectors came to audit a series of fishing establishments that are exporting from Argentina within the framework of a mutual recognition of sanitary equivalences with our country,” explained Senasa’s Fishing Products Coordinator, Fabián Ballesteros.
From July 22 to 26, accompanied by Senasa professionals, auditors Denis Roberto Aldana Azurdia and Humberto Donato González Alvarado visited shrimp processing establishments in Trelew, Chubut province, and Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires province, and the Senasa offices in those cities.
The Guatemalan delegation verified on site the operation of the Senasa system to control the safety of fishing production, especially shrimp, which is what is mainly imported from our country, and they made inquiries that were answered by agents of the Argentine state agency.
"As a final result of the inspection, we were verbally notified that Argentina's regulatory framework, work methods and the integration of control systems are equivalent to those used in Guatemala, so the guarantees for exporting to that market were renewed," said Ballesteros.
The Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food of the Republic of Guatemala must now send Senasa the official final report with the results of the inspections carried out.
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