CODEX STAN 37-1981 Standard for Canned Shrimps or Prawns
1. SCOPE
This standard applies to canned shrimps or canned prawns.1It does not apply to specialty products where shrimp constitutes less than 50% m/m of the contents.
2. DESCRIPTION
2.1 PRODUCT DEFINITION
Canned shrimp is the product prepared from any combination of species of the families Penaeidae, Pandalidae, Crangonidae and Palaemonidae from which heads, shell, antennae have been removed.
2.2 PROCESS DEFINITION
Canned shrimp are packed in hermetically sealed containers and shall have received a processing treatment sufficient to ensure commercial sterility.
2.3 PRESENTATION
The product shall be presented as:
2.3.1 Peeled shrimp - shrimp which have been headed and peeled without removal of the dorsal tract;
2.3.2 Cleaned or de-veined - peeled shrimp which have had the back cut open and the dorsal tract removed at least up to the last segment next to the tail. The portion of the cleaned or de-veined shrimp shall make up 95% of the shrimp contents;
