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Export - 8/30/2021, MC-4
Export Requirements
Last update Aug 30, 2021
- Beef and beef products derived from cattle of any age slaughtered on or after November 7, 2015.
- Ground beef (excluding ineligible product as stated in B.1. below) slaughtered on or after November 7, 2015.
- U.S. Bison [scientific name Bison bison]
Mechanically separated meat, lean finely textured beef (LFTB), scrap meat, trimmings or other pieces (whether with or without bone) from skeletal muscle indistinguishable from beef trimmings, and product from advanced meat recovery systems.
All FSIS export certificates accompanying the product must be signed by a FSIS veterinarian. PHIS will apply DVM to the digital signature.
NOTE: Effective for all export certificates approved, signed, and issued on or after August 30, 2021. The export applicant will select the appropriate statements below via the PHIS statements module when completing the export application in PHIS. The selected statements will be added by PHIS to FSIS Form 9060-5B..
- Beef and beef Products - PHIS will generate FSIS Form 9060-5, Meat and Poultry Export Certificate of Wholesomeness and the export applicant will select the following statements in PHIS via the statements module:
- The feeding of ruminants with meat and bone meal and greaves derived from ruminants has been banned and the ban has been effectively enforced.
- The beef or beef products were neither derived from nor 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 any cattle regardless of age.
- The cattle from which beef or beef products 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 beef or beef products were derived from cattle that passed ante-mortem and post-mortem inspection. The beef or beef products were derived from cattle that were slaughtered under official supervision in FSIS-inspected establishments. The beef or beef products were derived from cattle free from systemic contagious, infectious and parasitic disease at the time of slaughter.
- The beef or beef products were produced in accordance with the FSIS National Residue Program, which ensures that the product is free of harmful residues.
- The United States has been evaluated and classified by the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) as a country with a negligible-risk status for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE).
- The bovine meat is not derived from mechanically separated meat.
- U.S. Bison - PHIS will generate FSIS Form 9060-5, Meat and Poultry Export Certificate of Wholesomeness.
All Federally inspected establishments are eligible to export.