The Summarization Of EU Mollusc Safety Regulations And The Analysis Of The Concentrations Of PCBs In Mollusc Products And In Sea Water

In 2001, China joins WTO, this means the effect of the traditional trade barrier will be gradually weakended. It creates a very good opportunity for China to enlarge export of fishery products. But look back the last few years, the development of the export of fishery products isn't as good as predicted. A new kind of trade barrier—technical trade barrier stands out to be the greatest obstacle in the trade of fishery products. The developed countries take advantage of their science and technology, pose great obstacle to China's export of fishery products.Mollusc is a very important specie in fishery product. But as mollusc is easier to accumulate poisonous substances in its body, it's quality is difficult to meet the requirements of some developed countries, such as EU, USA ,Japan and Korea. Compare with other kinds of fishery products, mollusc faces greater difficults.In this article, the author summarizes and analyzes the EU regulations about mollusc in the recent years. These regulations involve many aspects, such as package and tap, code bar and traceability.And, whereas great amount of PCBs in environment, and PCBs is dangerous to human health, and PCBs maybe be used as technical trade barrier to the export of mollusc, the author compares several PCBs detection methods and selects some samples to be detected by using gas chromatography. In the end of the article, the author discusses the way to deal with the technical trade barriers in mollusc trade.