Several US retailers will soon be offering their customers the first-ever four-star Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) certified tilapia from China.

The first shipment of four-star BAP tilapia has just arrived in the United States from China, the certification group said Monday. The product is imported by United States-based The Fishin’ Company.

Companies are capable of offering four-star BAP product if the product originates from BAP-certified processing plants, farms, hatcheries and feed mills.

With the BAP certification of two hatcheries and one feed mill in China late last year, The Fishin’ Company became capable of offering four-star BAP tilapia.

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