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BEL-5 (Aug 6, 2008)
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Eligible/Ineligible Products
- Eligible Products
- Fresh/frozen beef, beef products, beef
ingredients and offal.*
Certification Requirements
- For beef, obtain FSIS Form 9060-5, Export Certificate of Wholesomeness,
and the following statements on an FSIS
letterhead certificate:*
- The United States complies with the conditions
referred to in the Article on Bovine spongiform
encephalopathy in the Terrestrial Animal Health
Code of the OIE as a country posing a "controlled
risk" for bovine spongiform encephalopathy.
- The bovine meat and meat products were produced
and handled in a manner which ensures that such
products do not contain and are not contaminated
with:
- the following specified risk
materials: brains, skull, eyes,
trigeminal ganglia, spinal cord,
vertebral column (excluding the
vertebrae of the tail, the transverse
processes of the thoracic and lumbar
vertebrae, and the wings of the
sacrum) and dorsal root ganglia of
cattle 30 months of age and older; and
the tonsils and distal ileum of the
small intestine of cattle regardless
of age,
- mechanically separated meat from the
skull and vertebral column from cattle
over 30 months of age.
- The method of stunning cattle does not include
intracranial gas or air injection or the use of
sharp instruments which could cut the medulla (pithing)
- Additional food safety declarations:
- The bovine meat and meat products were
subject to testing in accordance with the U.S.
National Residue Program.
- The beef meat and beef products were
produced under mandatory HACCP regulations and
were found to be in full compliance.
- Protein-free beef tallow. The following certification statement must be included in the "Remarks" section of
FSIS Form 9060-5 for protein-free tallow:
"The protein-free tallow covered by this certificate has been tested for content of insoluble impurities with the
results below 0.15% in weight."
This certification statement will be included on the export certificate based on the presentation of a certificate issued
by an independent laboratory report (not belonging to the exporter and/or the manufacturer).
Plants Eligible to Export
All Federally inspected establishments are eligible to export to
Belize.
BEL-5 (Aug 6, 2008)
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