Export Certificates
The Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service has announced that, starting July 1, export certificates for meat and poultry products (excluding casings and egg products) exported to China will be digitally signed in FSIS’ Public Health Information System.
All export certificates (FSIS Form 9060-5 series) generated through PHIS for China will be digitally signed and printed on plain, watermarked paper by industry personnel with PHIS access. FSIS inspection program personnel will print only upon request when industry does not have a functional printer or PHIS access.
FSIS states that all attestations and information as documented in the FSIS Export Library for China will be captured in the Form 9060-5 remarks section or Form 9060-5B (continuation sheet). FSIS Form 9295-1, all letterhead certificates, and the use of wet-ink signed security paper will no longer be used for exports to China. In addition, FSIS inspection program personnel will not scan and upload any 9060-5 series certificates for China, as all such certificates will be digitally signed and captured in PHIS.
Flowers and Greenery
The USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announced March 27 a list of more than 1,000 plant taxa that are generally admissible for importation as cut flowers and greenery. Stakeholders will now be able to query the Agricultural Commodity Import Requirements database and/or eFile to find the entry requirements for these plant taxa in the same manner as for other regulated plants and plant products. ACIR will provide a single source to search for and retrieve entry requirements for cut flowers and greenery, including the necessary information to determine admissibility and if an import permit is needed.
Poultry from Canada
Effective March 22 APHIS has removed restrictions on imports of poultry, commercial birds, ratites, avian hatching eggs, unprocessed avian products and byproducts, and certain fresh poultry products originating from or transiting zones PCZ-206 and -211 in British Columbia and zone PCA-233 in Quebec.
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