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CAY-12 (Sep 28, 2011)
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Eligible/Ineligible Products
- Eligible Products
- Beef and beef products.
- Sheep and goat meat and meat products from
animals less than 12 months of age and produced
under an AMS EV program.
- Meat and meat products legally imported into
the United States from Australia, New Zealand,
or Canada. Establishments where non-conforming
products are also present are subject to an
approved AMS Export Verification (EV) program.
- Canned, boneless meat legally imported into the United States.
- Pork and pork products.
- Poultry and poultry products.
- Ineligible Products
- Meat and meat products containing meat derived from an
Advanced Meat Recovery (AMR) process.
Documentation Requirements
- Certification Requirements - For all eligible products, obtain FSIS Form 9060-5, Meat and
Poultry Export Certificate of Wholesomeness.
- Beef and beef products. Obtain FSIS Form 9060-5, Export Certificate
of Wholesomeness and an FSIS
Letterhead Certificate.
- The United States complies with the conditions in the
Terrestrial Animal Health Code of the OIE as a country
that presents a Controlled Risk for bovine spongiform
encephalopathy (BSE).
- The cattle from which the fresh meat and meat
products destined for export were derived 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.
- The bovine meat and meat products were produced and handled in a manner
which ensures that such products do not contain and are not contaminated
with 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
cattle regardless of age.
- The bovine meat and meat products were produced and handled in a manner
which ensures that such products do not contain and are not contaminated
with mechanically separated meat (MSM) or other meats from other systems of
advanced meat recovery (AMR) from the skull and vertebral column from cattle over
30 months of age
- For sheep and goat meat and meat products derived from animals less than 12 months of age
and slaughtered in the U.S., if the slaughter establishment and all subsequent
processing establishments are on
AMS´ "Official Listing of
Eligible Suppliers to the USDA EV Program" for
Cayman Islands approved establishments and the
export applicant certifies that "The product was
produced under an Export Verification (EV) Program that certifies products to be derived from animals less than 12 months of age program that was
audited and approved by the United States
Department of Agriculture´s Agricultural
Marketing Service", the following statements
should be provided in the Remarks section of
FSIS 9060-5:*
"The meat was derived from animals less than 12 months of age."
- For meat and meat products imported from Australia, New Zealand,
or Canada and exported to the Cayman Islands without further processing
in the United States, a copy of the applicable health certificate from
the importing country must accompany the product. In addition, the
following statement must be included in the Remarks section of FSIS Form
9060-5:
"The meat or meat product was legally imported into the United
States from Australia, New Zealand, or Canada."
- For meat and meat products imported from Australia, New Zealand, or
Canada and exported to the Cayman Islands after further processing in
the United States, the following must be included in the Remarks section of
FSIS Form 9060-5:
"This product contains meat legally imported into the United States
from Australia, New Zealand, or Canada."
- For canned, boneless meat imported into the United States and exported to the
Cayman Islands, the following statement must be included in the
Remarks section of FSIS Form 9060-5:
"The canned meat product was derived from boneless meat that was
thoroughly cooked and hermetically sealed and was legally imported
into the United States."
Other Requirements
- Meat and meat products intended for personal consumption up to a maximum of
5 kg will be permitted entry without export certification provided the original packaging
is intact and the packaging bears the USDA inspection legend.
Plants Eligible to Export
All Federal authorized plants are eligible to export to the Cayman Islands.
CAY-12 (Sep 28, 2011)
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