Eligible Foreign Establishments
Countries listed in the table below are eligible to export meat, poultry, or egg products to the United States. Select a country from the table below for a detailed listing of the foreign establishments certified as eligible to export meat, poultry, or egg products to the United States.
A certified establishment is an establishment that the country’s central competent authority (CCA) certifies as meeting the requirements of the inspection system that that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) determined equivalent to the United States inspection system and, therefore, eligible to export meat, poultry, or egg products to the United States.
For the purposes of this webpage, the term “processed” refers to raw meat or poultry products that have been modified through an additional processing step. Methods of processing meat and poultry products include, but are not limited to, cooking, salting, curing, aging, fermentation, and smoking. Simple mechanical processes (sometimes referred to as further processing) such as cutting, grinding, or mixing of raw meat and poultry products are not included in this definition.
- Raw meat and poultry products may be produced and certified under the following FSIS Process Categories:
- Raw Product - Non-Intact and
- Raw Product – Intact.
- Processed meat and poultry products may be produced and certified under the following FSIS Process Categories:
- Thermally Processed - Commercially Sterile,
- Not Heat Treated - Shelf Stable,
- Heat Treated - Shelf Stable,
- Fully Cooked - Not Shelf Stable,
- Heat Treated - Not Fully Cooked - Not Shelf Stable, and
- Products with Secondary Inhibitors - Not Shelf Stable.
The term "egg products" refers to eggs that are removed from their shells for processing. The processing of egg products includes breaking eggs, filtering, mixing, stabilizing, blending, pasteurizing, cooling, freezing, drying, and packaging.
Argentina (Nov 07, 2023)
- Raw Beef
Australia (Nov 22, 2023)
- Raw and Processed Beef
- Raw and Processed Veal
- Raw and Processed Goat
- Raw and Processed Sheep
(Lamb and Mutton) - Raw Ostrich
Austria (July 19, 2023)
- Processed Pork
Brazil (Aug 7, 2023)
- Raw and Processed Beef
- Raw and Processed Pork
Canada (Nov 27, 2023)
- Raw and Processed Beef
- Raw and Processed Veal
- Raw and Processed Chicken
- Raw and Processed Goat
- Raw and Processed Sheep (Lamb)
- Raw and Processed Pork
- Raw and Processed Duck
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Raw and Processed Goose
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Raw and Processed Guinea
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Raw and Processed Squab
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Raw and Processed Emu
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Raw and Processed Ostrich
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Raw and Processed Rhea
- Raw and Processed Turkey
Canada (Egg Products) (June 27, 2023)
- Egg Products
Chile (Oct 13, 2023)
- Raw Beef
- Raw and Processed Chicken
- Raw Sheep (Lamb and Mutton)
- Raw Pork
- Raw and Processed Turkey
China, People's Republic of (Sep 19, 2023)
- Raw Siluriformes
- Processed Chicken
- Processed Duck
Costa Rica (May 16, 2023)
- Raw Beef
Croatia (June 5, 2023)
- Processed Beef
- Processed Pork
Denmark (Oct 10, 2023)
- Raw and Processed Pork
Dominican Republic (August 16, 2022)
- Raw Beef
England (See United Kingdom)
- Raw Beef
- Raw Sheep (Lamb and Mutton)
- Raw Pork
Finland (May 18, 2023)
- Raw Pork
France (Sep 06, 2023)
- Raw Veal
- Raw and Processed Pork
Germany (Oct 18, 2023)
- Processed Pork
Honduras (June 8, 2023)
- Raw Beef
Hungary (May 22, 2023)
- Raw and Processed Pork
Iceland (May 18, 2023)
- Raw Sheep (Lamb and Mutton)
Ireland (Jul 12, 2023)
- Raw Beef
- Raw Sheep (Lamb and Mutton)
- Raw Pork
Israel (Jun 13, 2023)
- Processed Chicken
- Processed Turkey
Italy (Sep 29, 2023)
- Raw and Processed Pork
Japan (May 22, 2023)
- Raw Beef
Lithuania (May 22, 2023)
- Processed Beef
- Processed Pork
Lithuania (Egg Products) (May 22, 2023)
- Egg Products
Mexico1 (Nov 8, 2023)
- Raw and Processed Beef
- Raw and Processed Chicken
- Raw and Processed Goat
- Raw Sheep (Lamb and Mutton)
- Raw and Processed Pork
- Raw and Processed Turkey
Namibia (Jun 26, 2023)
- Raw Beef
Netherlands (Oct 23, 2023)
- Raw Veal
- Raw and Processed Pork
Netherlands (Egg Products) (Apr 13, 2023)
- Egg Products
New Zealand (Nov 27, 2023)
- Raw and Processed Beef
- Raw and Processed Veal
- Raw and Processed Goat
- Raw and Processed Sheep (Lamb and Mutton)
Nicaragua (Jan 10, 2023)
- Raw Beef
Northern Ireland (See United Kingdom)
- Raw Beef
- Raw Sheep (Lamb and Mutton)
- Raw Pork
Poland (Sep 07, 2023)
- Raw and Processed Chicken
- Raw and Processed Pork
- Raw and Processed Duck
- Raw and Processed Goose
- Raw and Processed Guinea
- Raw and Processed Turkey
Republic of Korea (Sep 15, 2023)
- Processed Chicken
- Processed Duck
Romania (Sep 19, 2023)
- Processed Pork
San Marino (May 22, 2023)
- Processed Pork
Scotland (See United Kingdom)
- Raw Beef
- Raw Sheep (Lamb and Mutton)
- Raw Pork
Spain (Aug 16, 2023)
- Raw and Processed Pork
Thailand (May 18, 2023)
- Raw Siluriformes
United Kingdom2 (Oct 24, 2023)
- Raw Beef
- Raw Sheep (Lamb and Mutton)
- Raw Pork
Uruguay (Aug 3, 2023)
- Raw and Processed Beef
- Raw Sheep (Lamb and Mutton)
Vietnam (Oct 19, 2023)
- Raw and Processed Siluriformes
Wales (See United Kingdom)
- Raw Beef
- Raw Sheep (Lamb and Mutton)
- Raw Pork
- Mexico is approved to export only processed poultry products slaughtered under Federal inspection in the United States or in a country eligible to export slaughtered poultry to the United States.
- On March 6, 2020, FSIS combined England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales into one food safety inspection system under the United Kingdom.
