Aquaculture Seafood Products Due To Unapproved Drugs

Why FDA issued it

Note: The revision of this Import Alert (IA) dated 09/6/2024 updates the guidance section and charge code language. Changes to the import alert are bracketed by asterisks (***). There has been an extensive commercialization and an increased consumption rate of aquaculture seafood products. Aquaculture, also known as fish and shellfish farming, refers to the breeding, rearing and harvesting of aquatic food animals under environmentally controlled conditions with some form of intervention to enhance production, such as regular stocking, feeding, prevention and treatment of diseases, protection from predators, etc. Aquaculture activities are conducted in all types of water environments, freshwater, coastal and marine, inland ponds, tanks, reservoirs, rivers, lakes, estuaries, bays, fjords, and open sea. Aquaculture production is vulnerable to diseases and changing environmental conditions.

Quoted from the “Reason for Alert” section of the FDA page for 16-124, mirrored 30 August 2026. The quotation is truncated at the length this copy carries.