The goal for the international seafood industry is to ensure a uniform high standard of hygiene in all processing facilities around the world. In the first of a series of articles, Herby Neubacher describes how seafood suppliers in South East Asia are designing and building their processing plants to meet the hygiene standards demanded by international buyers
There is a simple reason for the high and still increasing awareness of hygiene today - seafood has become a worldwide trading commodity. Because of shortages of traditional species, buyers from major markets are sourcing more and more seafood from South East Asian countries such as Thailand, India, Vietnam and Bangladesh.
However,
