Export Requirements for Barbados

BAR-8 (Dec 21, 2007)

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Eligible/Ineligible Products

Eligible Products
1. Boneless beef and boneless beef meat products (including ground beef and beef suet). Except for the imported product exemption below, boneless beef and boneless beef meat products (including ground beef and beef suet) from animals less than 30 months of age must be produced under an approved AMS Export Verification (EV) Less Than 30 (LT30) months of age program. Information about the EV program for Barbados and a list of Less Than 30 (LT30) months of age approved establishments can be obtained from the following Web site: http://www.ams.usda.gov/lsg/arc/bev.htm.*
  
  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.
2. Fresh/frozen beef and beef products imported from Australia that are derived from bovine animals of any age may be exported to Barbados without an AMS EV program. (See documentation section requirements.)
3. Fresh/frozen and cooked poultry meat products.
4. Wild Boar.

Documentation Requirements

Certification of boneless beef and boneless beef meat products (including ground beef and beef suet) - Obtain FSIS Form 9060-5, Meat and Poultry Export Certificate of Wholesomeness. The following statements must be typed in the "Remarks" section of the FSIS Form 9060-5 or on a letterhead certificate.
1. Any beef or beef meat product (hereafter referred to as beef) included in this shipment was produced as boneless beef.
2. The beef does not include advanced recovery beef or mechanically deboned beef.
3. The beef originated from animals that were less than thirty (30) months old at the time of slaughter.
4. The cattle were humanely stunned by a method that did not include injecting gas into the cranial cavity nor laceration of the spinal cord.
5. The beef was obtained from animals that were slaughtered at a USDA inspected facility which slaughters only animals less than thirty (30) months old or where there is satisfactory segregation of animal product to allow certification that it originated from animals less than thirty (30) months of age.
6. The beef contains no specified risk material including brain, eyes, trigeminal ganglia, spinal cord, tonsils nor intestines (pylorus to anus).
Note: Effective February 5, 2007, a Statement of Verification letter from AMS is no longer required to sign the FSIS export certificate. AMS will no longer issue the letter for Barbados as of that date. All other EV program requirements for Barbados remain in effect.
Beef and beef products imported from Australia may be derived from animals of any age and are not required to be produced under an AMS EV program. Obtain FSIS Form 9060-5 and provide a copy of the original Australian health certificate presented upon import into the U.S. In addition, the following statement should be typed in the "Remarks" section of FSIS Form 9060-5 or typed on an FSIS Letterhead certificate:*

"The beef or beef products were legally imported from Australia into the United States in accordance with U.S. import procedures for meat and poultry products."

Note: Effective February 5, 2007, a Statement of Verification letter from AMS is no longer required to sign the FSIS export certificate. AMS will no longer issue the letter for Barbados as of that date. All other EV program requirements for Barbados remain in effect.*
Certification of fresh/frozen and cooked poultry meat - Obtain FSIS Form 9060-5, Meat and Poultry Export Certificate of Wholesomeness. The following statements must be typed in the "Remarks" section of FSIS Form 9060-5:

For fresh/frozen poultry meat

"There have been no outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (fowl plague) for at least 90 days in the state where the birds were produced or slaughtered. Further, in the area where the birds were produced or slaughtered (such an area being within a minimum radius of 50 kilometers from the production farm), neither Newcastle disease, fowl cholera nor any other serious infectious fowl disease as recognized by the government of the United States, has occurred for at least 90 days."

For cooked poultry meat
1. "The poultry meat was not derived from birds slaughtered in the context of an avian influenza or other disease control or eradication program;
2. The poultry meat has been subjected to a heat treatment such that the middle of the product reached a temperature of at least 72 degrees Celsius;
3. The poultry meat product was handled in such a manner that any possibility of contamination of the product by unprocessed poultry material after the heat process, either directly or indirectly, was prevented; and
4. The poultry meat product did not come into contact with any products of bovine origin at any stage of manufacturing or handling."
Certification of wild boar - Obtain FSIS Form 9060-5, Meat and Poultry Export Certificate of Wholesomeness. In addition, the following statements must be included on an FSIS letterhead certificate:
1. African Swine Fever, Foot and Mouth Disease, Hog Cholera, Rinderpest and Swine Vesicular Disease have not occurred in the United States of America during the last twelve (12) months.
2. The products were derived from animals that passed veterinary ante-mortem and post-mortem inspection at the time of slaughter.
3. The products originate from a USDA inspected slaughter establishment that slaughters animals for human consumption.
4. The products are sound and fit for human consumption.
5. The products originated from pigs tested at slaughter for trichinae in an official laboratory with negative results or, alternatively, the meat underwent treatment to destroy trichina according to one of the methods described in 9 CFR 318.10.

Other Requirements

For fresh/frozen poultry meat. If the poultry product transits a third country, pre-approval must be obtained by the importer of the product from the Veterinary Services/Barbados. In addition, the container must be sealed with an official USDA seal and the seal number must be indicated in the "Remarks" section of the FSIS Form 9060-5.

Plants Eligible to Export

All USDA federally inspected plants are eligible to export to Barbados.

BAR-8 (Dec 21, 2007)


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