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LE-10 (Sep 21, 2006)
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Eligible/Ineligible Products
- Eligible Products
- Poultry and poultry products.*
- Meat and meat products, including bone-in
and boneless beef products. A Beef Export
Verification (BEV) program is required. Refer to
the "Documentation Requirements" section for
further information.
- Ineligible Products
- The restriction on raw poultry and poultry products
has been removed.*
Packaging/Labeling Requirements
Processed meat/poultry products should have the manufacturing date on the
immediate container. If coded, explain each code on the export
certificate. Meat and poultry products must reach Lebanon within 180
days of slaughter.
Certification Requirements
- Obtain FSIS Form 9060-5--Export Certificate of Wholesomeness
for all meat and poultry products.
- Meat and meat products, including bone-in and
boneless beef products.
Plants are required to export bone-in and boneless beef
under an approved Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS)
BEV program. Information regarding the AMS USDA Beef
Export Verification program and a list of eligible
establishments can be accessed from AMS' Web site.
If FSIS inspection personnel become aware of concerns that an AMS approved BEV
establishment is not properly executing its BEV program, 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
The export applicant must certify on the FSIS
9060-6, Application for Export, in the Remarks section,
"The product was produced under a Beef Export
Verification (BEV) program that was audited and approved
by the United States Department of Agriculture´s
Agricultural Marketing Service." In addition, slaughter
and all subsequent processing plants must appear on the
AMS´ list of BEV Lebanon approved establishments.
In addition to FSIS Form 9060-5, obtain an FSIS letterhead certificate with the following
certification statements:
- The United States is free from the following significant OIE listed diseases
for the relevant species: foot and mouth disease, rinderpest, contagious bovine
pleuropneumonia, lumpy skin disease, Rift Valley fever, peste des petits ruminants,
heartwater, swine vesicular disease, sheep and goat pox, African horse fever, and
African swine fever.
- With regard to bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE):
- The United States has an active BSE surveillance program which meets or exceeds OIE
recommendations.
- BSE is a mandatory reportable disease in the United States.
- BSE confirmed positive animals and identified at-risk cohorts are
destroyed and prevented from entering the human or animal food chain, in
accordance with OIE guidelines.
- The United States has prohibited the feeding of ruminants with ruminant
meat-and-bone meal and greaves since 1997.
- The use of hormonal growth promoters for ruminants in the U.S. is in accordance with
the relevant Codex Alimentarius norms or U.S. Food and Drug Administration standards.
- The meat was subject to residue testing in accordance with the U.S. National Residue
Plan.
- The animals from which the meat was derived were born, raised, and slaughtered in the
United States or were legally imported.
- The animals from which the meat was derived received ante and post mortem inspection
under veterinary supervision and showed no evidence of systemic contagious or infectious
diseases.
- The animals from which all bovine meat and bovine meat products and byproducts were obtained
were less than 30 months of age.
- The meat was derived from official slaughter, cutting, and processing establishments approved
and inspected regularly by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
- Bovine meat, bovine minced meat, bovine meat preparations, and bovine processed meat
products were processed from the carcasses of healthy animals determined to be fit for human
consumption. The products were not derived from the following specified risk materials:
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 or older, or the tonsils and
distal ileum of the small intestines regardless of the age of the cattle.
- The meat preparations and processed meat products do not contain any harmful additive.
- The meat, minced meat, meat preparation or processed meat products described in this
certificate were obtained under hygienic conditions and therefore are considered to be fit for
human consumption.
- The wrapping and/or packing of the meat or products bear the US inspection legend
showing the official establishment number of the production plant.
- Include slaughter dates and expiration dates in the "remarks" section of FSIS
Form 9060-5. Meat and poultry products must reach Lebanon within 180
days of slaughter.
- Meat and meat products must be loaded onto the ocean vessel within 30 days of the date
on the FSIS export certificate.
- An import permit is required for fresh (unfrozen) poultry meat. Imports
of frozen meat, frozen poultry (including livers) no longer need a prior
import license.
Plants Eligible to Export
All federally inspected establishments are eligible to export to Lebanon.
LE-10 (Sep 21, 2006)
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