Effective March 24, the Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service imposed the following restrictions on imports of avian commodities from the sanitary control zone of the Santiago metropolitan region in Chile due to concerns about highly-pathogenic avian influenza.
- Importation of poultry, commercial birds, ratites, avian hatching eggs is prohibited.
- Importation as cargo of processed avian products and byproducts must be accompanied by an APHIS import permit and/or government certification confirming that the goods were treated in accordance with APHIS requirements.
- Importation as cargo of unprocessed avian products and byproducts (including eggs and egg products and meat) is prohibited with limited exceptions (e.g., in some cases these may be imported if consigned directly from the port of arrival to an eligible USDA-approved establishment).
- Importation as cargo of fresh, unprocessed shell/table eggs and egg products, void of the shell (e.g., liquid eggs and dried egg whites) is prohibited unless they are consigned from the port of arrival directly to an APHIS-approved breaking and pasteurization facility. An import permit and/or certificate is not required in such cases.
Separately, APHIS has removed restrictions on imports of poultry and related products originating from Iwate prefecture in Japan as of April 1.
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