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

Note:

*Excludes processed moisture-infused pork, fat/beef tallow-injected beef products, animal blood curd/blood tofu and marinated raw meat

** Poultry refers to a chicken, turkey, duck, goose, quail, squab, guinea fowl or pheasant

***Processed meat product includes processed edible offal

Application Requirements

4. From 1 December 2024:

• No application is required for exporting additional processed products of the same form and commodity species as currently approved.
• Application is only required for exporting new forms and/or species of commodities.

5. For a list of accredited establishments and their approved products, please visit the Accreditation Database for Overseas Sources (sfa.gov.sg) on SFA’s website. 

Health Certificate Requirements

6. There is no change to the current requirements for individual products to be listed in the health certificate for traceability purposes.

 7. For clarity, we now require the commodity form (eg. processed with or without heat treatment) to be indicated next to each product.

Updated Definition of Poultry

8. In line with this review, SFA had updated the definition of poultry which was previously limited to the four most common species- chicken, duck, goose and turkey. Moving on, the definition of poultry will be expanded to the following eight species- chicken, turkey, duck, geese, quail, squab, guinea fowl and pheasant. There is no change to SFA’s accreditation criteria and veterinary import conditions for poultry. 

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