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Export Requirements for Chile
CI-30 (Sep 18, 2008)
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Eligible/Ineligible Products
- Eligible Product
- Poultry Products - Fully cooked poultry
products, canned poultry products, and raw
frozen or chilled poultry meat are eligible
for export to Chile.
- Protein-free fats originating from beef.
- Collagen prepared from beef hides and skins.
- Fresh/frozen red meat and red meat products;
however, at this time, bovine meat products are
limited to chilled or frozen boneless beef
derived from cattle less than 30 months of age
produced under an approved AMS Export
Verification (EV) Less Than 30 (LT30) months of
age program. Information about the program for
Chile and a list of LT30 approved establishments
can be obtained from AMS' Web site.
If FSIS inspection personnel become aware of
concerns that an AMS approved LT30 establishment
is not properly executing its Quality Control
Program, export certification should not be
issued for the product in question and AMS
should be notified at
ARCBranch@usda.gov. Inspection personnel
should include their immediate supervisor on
messages to AMS. The following information should
be included in the message:
- Establishment name, address, and
establishment number
- Product type, product code, and quantity of product
- Date of production, lot number, and shift
- Date and nature of observation
- Name of country product is intended for export
- Export certificate number (if applicable)
- Any other information to verify claim
- Name of inspection official
Veal and veal products are not subject to the
LT30 program.
- Ineligible Product
- Frozen and chilled poultry meat from the
State of Arkansas slaughtered on or after June
13, 2008.
- All beef meat products and by-products from cattle 30 months of age or older.
- Sheep and goat meat products are not permitted entry from countries with scrapie. Scrapie is present in the U.S.
Processing Requirements
- Fully Cooked and Canned Meat and Poultry Products
- The animals or birds from which these fully cooked or canned products are
produced must be slaughtered in a federally inspected slaughter establishment.
- The products must undergo a thermal treatment to ensure commercial sterilization.
Fully cooked poultry products must be heated to a minimum internal temperature of
70° C (158° F). The internal
temperature must be stated on the corresponding export certificate.
Labeling Requirements
- Beef labeling
Cartons must have the following labeling information:
- Name of cut
- Establishment number, name, and address of the establishment where the product was packed
- Gross weight, net weight, and number of cuts in the carton
- Day, month, and year of slaughter
- USDA quality grade designation (cartons must contain only cuts of the same grade).
- Equivalent Chilean grade designation must
be provided on carton and product labels;
grade designation comparison tables can be
obtained from the FTA text. See page 28 to
33 and please read point 6 of Annex 3.17, http://www.ustr.gov/assets/Trade_Agreements/Bilateral/Chile_FTA/Final_Texts/asset_upload_file837_3992.pdf.*
The protective covering of the individual beef cuts
inside the box must have the following labeling
information:
- Name of the cut
- Establishment number, name, and address of the establishment where the product was packed
- Day, month, and year of slaughter
- USDA quality grade designation
Note: Applying labeling features to inner bags either
requires inclusion of all required features in
accordance with 9 CFR 317.2 or sketch approval for the
deviation (absence of some features) according to 9
CFR 317.7 if all required features are not included.
Documentation Requirements
- Certification:
- Red Meat and red meat products - Obtain FSIS Form 9060-5--Export Certificate of
Wholesomeness.
For boneless beef shipments, the following statements must be typed in the "Remarks" section of FSIS Form 9060-5
or on a FSIS Letterhead Certificate:
- "The feeding of ruminants with meat and bone meal and greaves derived from ruminants has
been banned and the ban has been effectively enforced."
- "The meat comes from cattle that were not rendered insensible by a device injecting
compressed air or gas into the cranial cavity prior to slaughter, or by any method that
cuts the spinal cord."
- "The meat or meat products were not derived from the following specified risk materials: the brain,
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 any cattle, regardless of age."
- "The meat or meat products were not produced by a process of mechanical separation."
- "The meat comes from cattle less than 30 months of age that were subjected to ante and
post mortem inspection and showed no evidence of systemic contagious or infectious diseases
of animal or public health concern, including suspected or confirmed cases of central
nervous system disorders."
- "The country or zone of origin is declared as free of foot-and-mouth disease without
vaccination, rinderpest, and contagious bovine pleuropneumonia before the International
Office of Epizootics and this sanitary condition is recognized by Chile."
- "The cattle from which the beef is derived were born, raised, and slaughtered in the
exporting country or in a zone with similar epidemiological conditions."
- Pork and pork products
Shipments of fresh or frozen
pork must be accompanied by FSIS Form 9060-5,
Export Certificate of Wholesomeness, and the
following FSIS
Letterhead Certificate.
Fresh/frozen
pork must be
trichinae-treated according to FSIS regulations
or originate from
swine subjected to a trichinae detection
program at the time of slaughter. The
establishment must also have an acceptable
control program to identify and segregate
pork found to be trichinae-free. Laboratories used to conduct the analysis
must participate in the Agricultural
Marketing Service (AMS) Trichinae Analysis
and Laboratory Certification Program. For
further information, contact:
Isaac (Gene) Sterling, Microbiologist
USDA/AMS/Science & Technology
Technical Services Branch
Mail Stop 0272
14th and Independence Avenue, S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20050-0272
Tel. (202) 720-5898
Fax. (202) 720-4631
e-mail: Isaac.Sterling@usda.gov
- Cooked poultry products.
- Obtain FSIS Form 9060-5.
- The following information must be provided in the "Remarks" section: "The
product listed on this certificate has been fully cooked to a minimum
temperature of _____° F."
- Raw Frozen and Chilled Poultry Meat.
- Obtain FSIS Form 9060-5.
- "FSIS Letterhead
Certificate to Export Frozen or
Chilled Poultry Meat to Chile"
must accompany FSIS Form 9060-5. A
guideline
has been developed to assist with the
preparation of this letterhead certificate.
- For poultry that have been
vaccinated with a killed AI virus
vaccine, an additional USDA
letterhead
certificate must be
completed. A signed statement by the
APHIS accredited industry
veterinarian responsible for the
flock of origin allows this addendum
letterhead to be certified by the
FSIS signing veterinarian. A
guideline
has been developed to
assist with the preparation of this
letterhead certificate.
- Canned Meat and Poultry Products - Obtain FSIS form 9060-5.
- Casings
- Obtain FSIS Form 9060-7--Animal Casings Export Certificate for Countries Requiring
Ante-mortem, Post-mortem, and Fit for Human Food Statements. In addition, a letterhead
certificate must accompany the product certifying the following:
- "The casings were processed at a USDA facility."
- "After several steps, during the selection, the casings were flushed
with water. Then the casings were drained before salt was added. Here the
relationship water/protein does not exceed the 2.25/1."
- "The casings were shaken out of excess salt before the final package."
- "Casings were inspected and rechecked for export at: (provide USDA/FSIS
Establishment Number, Name, and Address)"
- Sheep casings are not permitted entry into Chile due to the presence of scrapie in the U.S.
- All export certificates accompanying the product must be signed by an FSIS veterinarian.
- Horsemeat
- Obtain FSIS Form 9060-10--Horse Meat or Horse
Meat Product Export Certificate. Obtain FSIS
Letterhead Certificate--Animal Health Certificate
for Meat Derived From Horse, Ass, Mule for Export
to Chile for Human Consumption.
- The certificate may require a visa from the
Chilean consulate.
Plants Eligible to Export
All federally inspected red meat and poultry establishments are eligible to export to Chile.
Plants Not Eligible to Export
Meat and products produced or stored at the establishment listed below are not eligible for export to Chile until
further notice. Meat and meat products produced at other establishments from raw materials originating from this
establishment are also not eligible for export to Chile.
Est. 00336, Hallmark/Westland Meat Packing, Chino, CA
CI-30 - (Sep 18, 2008)
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