Poultry from Canada
Effective Oct. 25 and until further notice, the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has restricted the importation of poultry, commercial birds, ratites, avian hatching eggs, unprocessed avian products and byproducts, and certain fresh poultry products originating from or transiting zones PCZ-200 in British Columbia and PCZ-201 in Quebec, Canada.
Processed avian products and byproducts originating from or transiting these areas, imported as cargo, must be accompanied by an APHIS import permit and/or government certification confirming that the products were treated according to APHIS requirements. Further, importation as cargo of fresh, unprocessed shell/table eggs and other egg products, void of the shell (i.e., liquid eggs, dried egg whites), originating from or transiting these areas is prohibited unless the products 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 for these shipments when consigned directly to an APHIS-approved establishment.
Beef from Paraguay
APHIS has approved a final rule that will allow the importation of fresh beef from Paraguay under certain conditions, which include verifying that (1) foot-and-mouth disease has not been diagnosed in the exporting region in the past 12 months, (2) the meat comes from premises where FMC has not been present during the lifetime of any of the animals, and (3) the animals were inspected before and after their death.
APHIS states that under this rule fresh (chilled or frozen) deboned beef will be eligible for import from Paraguay, but imports of such beef are expected to be less than 6,500 metric tons annually (in part due to a quota Paraguay faces on beef exports to the U.S.)
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