Food and Drug Administration Equivalence Determination Regarding Implementation by Spain and the Netherlands of the European Union System of Food Safety Control Measures for Raw Bivalve Molluscan Shellfish With Additional Controls

Résumé

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or we) is announcing a final determination that the adoption and implementation by Spain and the Netherlands of the European Union's (EU's) system of food safety control measures for raw bivalve molluscan shellfish ("shellfish"), along with their application of additional measures specifically adopted for this purpose, i.e., for export to the United States, provides at least the same level of sanitary protection as comparable food safety measures in the United States and is therefore equivalent. This final equivalence determination will permit the importation of raw shellfish harvested from certain production areas in Spain and the Netherlands from establishments that have been listed by FDA on the Interstate Certified Shellfish Shippers List (ICSSL).