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As FDA gets tough on China seafood, it fails to hold others to same standard

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The Food and Drug Administration responded to jitters over Chinese imports recently by banning some of that country's seafood due to contaminants, but the agency has failed to apply the same standard to seafood supplied from other large exporters that use the same chemicals and fish-farming techniques.

Imports from Vietnam, Thailand and Indonesia, for instance, have continued apace, despite the fact that fish-farming techniques in those Asian countries are similar to those cited by the FDA when it issued an import alert in June targeting Chinese fish.

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