PETALING JAYA: Enforcement authorities have been urged to step up efforts to prevent the entry of shrimp with traces of banned antibiotics.
Dr S. Vellayan, a pharmacology lecturer at UiTM, said the authorities must ensure that nitrofurans and chloramphenicol were not contained in the shrimp brought in from neighbouring countries to be re-exported using Malaysia’s certificate of origin.
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