date:Jun 01, 2012
ollignon said the department was not testing enough and the failure rate of the antibiotics tests - about four per cent - was too high.
Australia is now a net importer of seafood and heavily reliant on prawns and fish from countries such as China, Thailand and Vietnam. Fish and seafood imports grew 12 per cent from 2007-08 to 2010-11. Seafood imports from Vietnam increased $10 million in the last financial year to $162 million.
Norman Grant, executive chairman of the Seafood Importers Associ