Trade Circular on Revised Procedures for Export of Additional Processed Meat and Egg Products from Overseas Accredited Processing Establishments

a) SFA will shift from product-based approval to a framework based on: i) form of commodity ii) commodity's species of the processed products intended for export.

b) Overseas Competent authorities no longer need to submit applications for export of additional processed meat and egg products from SFA-approved processing establishments if these products are of the same form and commodity species as currently approved.

c) While there is no change to the current requirements for individual products to be listed in the health certificate, to ensure clarity, we would require the commodity form (eg. processed with or without heat treatment) to be indicated next to the individual products to be exported.   

d) An expanded definition of poultry to chicken, turkey, duck, geese, quail, squab, guinea fowl and pheasant.

3. Details of the revised procedure can be found in the Annex.

4. Please contact SFA should you have any enquiries on the import of poultry and poultry products, domestic birds, day-old chicks and hatching eggs.