The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is responsible for the safety of all sh and shery products entering the United States. The FDA uses a risk-informed seafood safety program that relies on various measures of compliance with its seafood Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) regulations. For imported seafood, control measures include: inspections of foreign processing facilities, sampling of seafood offered for import into the United States, domestic surveillance sampling of imported products, inspections of seafood importers, evaluations of lers of seafood products, foreign country program assessments, and relevant information from our foreign partners and FDA overseas ofces.
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