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 (Dec 28, 2022)
- Raw Beef
Australia (Feb 2, 2023)
- Raw and Processed Beef
- Raw and Processed Veal
- Raw and Processed Goat
- Raw and Processed Sheep
(Lamb and Mutton) - Raw Ostrich
Austria (Aug 8, 2022)
- Processed Pork
Brazil (Jan 13, 2023)
- Raw and Processed Beef
- Raw and Processed Pork
Canada (Jan 19, 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) (August 25, 2022)
- Egg Products
Chile (Nov 21, 2022)
- Raw Beef
- Raw and Processed Chicken
- Raw Sheep (Lamb and Mutton)
- Raw Pork
- Raw and Processed Turkey
Costa Rica (May 13, 2022)
- Raw Beef
Croatia (June 27, 2022)
- Processed Beef
- Processed Pork
Denmark (Nov 22, 2022)
- 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 19, 2022)
- Raw Pork
France (June 1, 2022)
- Raw Veal
- Raw and Processed Pork
Germany (May 24, 2022)
- Processed Pork
Honduras (May 25, 2022)
- Raw Beef
Hungary (May 18, 2022)
- Raw and Processed Pork
Iceland (September 12, 2021)
- Raw Sheep (Lamb and Mutton)
Ireland (Jun 21, 2022)
- Raw Beef
- Raw Sheep (Lamb and Mutton)
- Raw Pork
Israel (July 20, 2022)
- Processed Chicken
- Processed Turkey
Italy (Sep 27, 2022)
- Raw and Processed Pork
Japan (June 9, 2022)
- Raw Beef
Lithuania (Sep 12, 2022)
- Processed Beef
- Processed Pork
Lithuania (Egg Products) (Oct 12, 2022)
- Egg Products
Mexico1 (Jan 19, 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 (Sep 12, 2022)
- Raw Beef
Netherlands (Oct 4, 2022)
- Raw Veal
- Raw and Processed Pork
Netherlands (Egg Products) (Oct 4, 2022)
- Egg Products
New Zealand (Jun 21, 2022)
- 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 (June 28, 2022)
- 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 (Jun 7, 2022)
- Processed Chicken
- Processed Duck
San Marino (Apr 21, 2022)
- Processed Pork
Scotland (See United Kingdom)
- Raw Beef
- Raw Sheep (Lamb and Mutton)
- Raw Pork
Spain (Oct 4, 2022)
- Raw and Processed Pork
Thailand (May 18, 2022)
- Raw Siluriformes
The People's Republic of China (Nov 28, 2022)
- Raw Siluriformes
- Processed Chicken
- Processed Duck
United Kingdom2 (Oct 27, 2022)
- Raw Beef
- Raw Sheep (Lamb and Mutton)
- Raw Pork
Uruguay (June 14, 2022)
- Raw and Processed Beef
- Raw Sheep (Lamb and Mutton)
Vietnam (July 29, 2022)
- 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.
