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LU-11 (Mar 22, 2007)
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Eligible/Ineligible Products
- Eligible Product
- Fresh/frozen poultry and poultry products, except as restricted in the
"Ineligible Product" section below.
- Boneless beef and boneless beef products 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 St. Lucia 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 include din
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
- Poultry and poultry products raised, processed,
or stored in states where low pathogenic or high
pathogenic Avian Influenza has been reported.
- Beef offal products.
Documentation Requirements
- Certification of fresh or frozen poultry - Obtain FSIS Form 9060-5
(05/06/1999), Meat and Poultry Export Certificate of Wholesomeness. The
following statement must be typed in the "Remarks" section of FSIS Form
9060-5 or on USDA letterhead:
"Poultry, poultry meat products, and
processed viscera of poultry, originated from birds
which were raised, slaughtered, processed, and stored in
States where no highly pathogenic avian influenza has
been reported or in establishments in which there has
been no evidence of notifiable low pathogenic avian
influenza in the 21 days prior to slaughter, as defined
by the OIE."
- For boneless beef and boneless beef products. In
completing the FSIS Form 9060-6, Application for Export,
the following statement must be included: "The product
meets EV requirements for St. Lucia." Obtain FSIS Form
9060-5, Meat and Poultry Export Certificate of
Wholesomeness. The following statements must be included
in the "Remarks" section or on a FSIS Letterhead
Certificate:
- "The United States meets or exceeds the
BSE guidance of the OIE pertaining to meat and
meat products."
- "The United States has prohibited the
feeding of ruminants with ruminant origin meat
and bone meal (MBM) and greaves since 1997, and
this prohibition has been effectively enforced."
- "The meat and meat products should be
deboned skeletal muscle (boneless beef) from
cattle less than 30 months of age, which were
not subjected to a stunning process, prior to
slaughter, with a device injecting compressed
air or gas into the cranial cavity, or to a
pithing process, and which were subject to
ante-mortem and post-mortem inspections and were
not suspect or confirmed BSE cases."
- "The meat and meat products were not
derived from or contaminated with mechanically
separated meat (MSM) from the skull or vertebral
column, or the following specified risk
materials: tissue from the brain, eye, spinal
cord, trigeminal ganglia, and dorsal root
ganglia from cattle 30 months of age or older,
and the tonsils and distal ileum of the small
intestine of any cattle, regardless of age."
Please note the title of the letterhead certificate has been modified to include
"veal" because shipments of veal have been detained due to the fact that it
was not included in the title of the letterhead certificate.*
Plants Eligible to Export
All federally inspected establishments are eligible to
export to St. Lucia. Beef meat must originate from AMS EV
approved establishments.
LU-11 (Mar 22, 2007)
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