The Food and Drug Administration has included in its black list the company Iberoamericana de Mariscos after finding salmonella in its product.
The Food and Drug Administration agency of the United States has included in a list of banned products shrimp packaged by the company Iberoamericana de Mariscos, after salmonella was detected in the product.
With the implementation of the decree in Honduras suspending tax exemptions for 60 days, exporters will have losses of $9 million.
With the implementation of the legislative decree suspending tax benefits for 60 days, exporters of melons, watermelons and cucumbers covered by the Temporary Import Regime (RIT) could record initial losses of $9 million.
A salmonella outbreak in Canada and the U.S. has been attributed to the consumption of Mexican mangoes, which has affected the confidence of this product in North America.
A statement from the Costa Rican Trade Promotion Office (PROCOMER) reads:
Warning of possible presence of salmonella in Mexican mangoes
The U.S. Food Administration (FDA), has prevented the entry of Mexican papaya into U.S. territory.
The alert was issued after finding salmonella contamination in several shipments.
In a statement, the FDA said it will work jointly with the Mexican National Health, Safety and Food Quality Service in order to eliminate the contamination from its producing regions.
The Government confirmed that the US and Europe have suspended the ban that was in place due to suspected salmonella contamination.
The minister of the Secretariat of Agriculture and Livestock, Hector Hernandez, explained that they have already exported five containers of melon to the US.
The US reopened its melon market to the Montelibano Company after their exports were suspended more than five months ago due to suspicion of salmonella.
The Minister of Agriculture and Livestock, Hector, Hernandez, explained that "by following the instructions of the FDA" which sent investigators to the farms and installations of Montelibano, the company began to plant new melon plantations for export in December, January, and February.
In the next few days a Honduran delegation will travel to Washington to obtain the investigating body's decision.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the United States may lift the health warning that was issued for Honduran melons, once the Agrolibano company has complied with all the measures required to avoid salmonella contamination.
Experts from the US Food and Drugs Administration will arrive in the country in October.
The objective is to verify whether or not the melon farms are in compliance with the security health measures required by the United States.
In March, the FDA suspended the exportation of melons to the United States by the Montelibano Company and by the Lavaderos company on the 4th of June, because it allegedly found that their products were contaminated with salmonella.
The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced it has again found salmonella in cantaloupes, this time from the Honduras company Suragro.
The FDA has not made public the results of laboratory field tests carried out on the Montelíbano cantaloupes , the company whose product first showed signs of salmonella last March.
"Several months passed without them saying anything, and now they come and accuse another Honduras company," said the President of the National Industralists Association, Adolfo Facussé. "We are very concerned about this."
The Agrolíbano company could learn as early as this week whether it will be able to resume exporting its melons to the United States. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will notify it once the results of its analysis of the production system of the fruit in the affected finca are completed. Its exports had been banned due to a suspected outbreak of salmonella.
The American Ambassador to Honduras, Charles Ford, has confirmed that he has been in touch with FDA officials to see how the investigation is progressing. "I can't say for sure, but I have the impression that it will be in the next week," he said of the decision.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has come out and confirmed that melons from Agropecuaria Montelibano in Honduras have tested positive for salmonella.
Back on March 22, the FDA put out an import alert in regards to the melons, stating that they had traceback evidence showing the product was linked to salmonella.