St. Lucia
Library Updates
Export - 7/08/2022, LU-80
Export Requirements
Last update Jul 08, 2022
1. Fresh/frozen poultry and poultry products, except as restricted in the "Ineligible Product" Section B. below.
2. Cooked poultry and poultry products.
3. Beef, beef products, and beef offals;
- Produced on or after February 17, 2015 do not require an AMS EV program.
- Before February 17, 2015, boneless beef and boneless beef products derived from cattle less than 30 months of age produced under an approved AMS Export Verification (EV) Less Than 30 (LT30) months of age program. Information about the program for St. Lucia and a list of LT30 approved establishments can be obtained from AMS' Web site.
Effective March 19, 2012, a Statement of Verification (SOV) is no longer required as part of the export certification process for St. Lucia. FSIS inspection personnel will continue to verify the eligibility of the establishment and product. The unique product identification system can be accessed by authorized FSIS inspection personnel from FSIS' Intranet site.
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 QAD.AuditService@usda.gov. Inspection personnel should include their immediate supervisor on messages to AMS. The following information should be included in the message:
a. Establishment name, address, and establishment number
b. Product type, product code, and quantity of product
c. Date of production, lot number, and shift
d. Date and nature of observation
e. Name of country product is intended for export
f. Export certificate number (if applicable)
g. Any other information to verify claim
h. Name of inspection official
4. Fresh/frozen pork and pork products are eligible effective July 8, 2009.
- Fresh/Frozen poultry and poultry products derived from birds raised, slaughtered, processed, or stored in:
- Colorado -
- The State of Colorado on or after April 8, 2022 are ineligible for export to St. Lucia.
- Delaware -
- The State of Delaware on or after February 22, 2022 and before June 24, 2022 are ineligible for export to St. Lucia. *
- Idaho -
- The State of Idaho on or after April 14, 2022 are ineligible for export to St. Lucia.
- Indiana -
- The State of Indiana on or after February 8, 2022 and before June 14, 2022 are ineligible for export to St. Lucia.*
- Iowa -
- The State of Iowa on or after March 6, 2022 are ineligible for export to St. Lucia.
- Kansas -
- The State of Kansas on or after March 11, 2022 are ineligible for export to St. Lucia.
- Kentucky -
- The State of Kentucky on or after February 12, 2022 and before May 14, 2022 are ineligible for export to St. Lucia.
- Maine -
- The State of Maine on or after March 22, 2022 are ineligible for export to St. Lucia.
- Maryland -
- The State of Maryland on or after March 4, 2022 are ineligible for export to St. Lucia.
- Michigan -
- The State of Michigan on or after April 13, 2022 are ineligible for export to St. Lucia.
- Minnesota -
- The State of Minnesota on or after March 25, 2022 are ineligible for export to St. Lucia.
- Missouri -
- The State of Missouri on or after March 4, 2022 are ineligible for export to St. Lucia.
- Montana -
- The State of Montana on or after April 7, 2022 are ineligible for export to St. Lucia.
- Nebraska -
- The State of Nebraska on or after March 22, 2022 and before July 5, 2022 are ineligible for export to St. Lucia.*
- New Jersey -
- The State of New Jersey on or after May 17, 2022 are ineligible for export to St. Lucia.
- New York -
- The State of New York on or after March 23, 2022 are ineligible for export to St. Lucia.
- North Carolina -
- The State of North Carolina on or after March 29, 2022 are ineligible for export to St. Lucia
- North Dakota -
- The State of North Dakota on or after March 29, 2022 are ineligible for export to St. Lucia.
- Oklahoma -
- The State of Oklahoma on or after April 30, 2022 and before June 8, 2022 are ineligible for export to St. Lucia.
- Oregon -
- The State of Oregon on or after May 17, 2022 are ineligible for export to St. Lucia.
- Pennsylvania -
- The State of Pennsylvania on or after April 15, 2022 are ineligible for export to St. Lucia.
- South Carolina -
- Chesterfield County on or after March 17, 2020 and before August 5, 2020; and
- The State of South Carolina on or after April 8, 2020 and before August 5, 2020 are ineligible for export to St. Lucia.
- South Dakota -
- The State of South Dakota on or after March 5, 2022 are ineligible for export to St. Lucia.
- Texas -
- The State of Texas on or after April 2, 2022 and before May 19, 2022 are ineligible for export to St. Lucia.
- Utah -
- Utah on or after April 25, 2022 are ineligible for export to St. Lucia.
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Washington -
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The State of Washington on or after May 5, 2022 are ineligible for export to St. Lucia.
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- Wisconsin -
- The State of Wisconsin on or after March 14, 2022 are ineligible for export to St. Lucia.
- Colorado -
- Imported beef and beef products that have not been further processed in the United States.
A. Certification of fresh or frozen poultry and poultry products - Obtain FSIS Form 9060-5, Meat and Poultry Export Certificate of Wholesomeness. The following statement must be typed in the "Remarks" section of FSIS Form 9060-5 or on a FSIS Letterhead Certificate:
"Poultry, poultry meat products, and processed viscera of poultry, originated from birds which were raised, slaughtered, processed, and stored in States where no highly pathogenic avian influenza has been reported and in flocks in which there has been no evidence of notifiable low pathogenic avian influenza in the 21 days prior to slaughter."
B. Certification of cooked poultry and poultry products - 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 or on a FSIS Letterhead Certificate:
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/meat product has been subjected to a heat treatment such that \ the product reached an internal temperature of at least 74 degrees Celsius (165 degrees Fahrenheit).
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.
C. For beef, beef products, and beef offals produced after February 17, 2015, obtain FSIS Form 9060-5, Meat and Poultry Export Certificate of Wholesomeness. The following statements must be included in the "Remarks" section or on a FSIS Letterhead Certificate:
1. The United States has been recognized by the World Organization of Animal Health (OIE) as a country free of Foot-and-Mouth Disease and Rinderpest.
2. The United States complies with the conditions of the Terrestrial Animal Health Code of the OIE, as a country that presents a Negligible Risk for Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy.
3. The beef or beef products comply with the BSE regulatory requirements and guidelines of the United States.
4. The feeding of ruminants with ruminant origin meat-and-bone meal or greaves is prohibited in the United States.
5. The cattle from which the beef and 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.
6. The beef or beef products were produced in accordance with the U.S. National Residue Program, which assures that the products do not contain harmful levels of veterinary drugs, pesticides or environmental contaminants.
D. For boneless beef and boneless beef products produced before February 17, 2015. In completing the FSIS Form 9060-6, Application for Export, the following statement must be included: "The product meets EV requirements for St. Lucia." Obtain FSIS Form 9060-5, Meat and Poultry Export Certificate of Wholesomeness. The following statements must be included in the "Remarks" section or on a FSIS Letterhead Certificate:
1. The United States meets or exceeds the BSE guidance of the OIE pertaining to meat and meat products.
2. The United States has prohibited the feeding of ruminants with ruminant origin meat and bone meal (MBM) and greaves since 1997, and this prohibition has been effectively enforced.
3. The meat and meat products should be deboned skeletal muscle (boneless beef) from cattle less than 30 months of age, which 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, and which were subject to ante-mortem and post-mortem inspections and were not suspect or confirmed BSE cases.
4. The meat and meat products were not derived from or contaminated with mechanically separated meat (MSM) from the skull or vertebral column, or the following specified risk materials: tissue from the brain, eye, spinal cord, trigeminal ganglia, and dorsal root ganglia from cattle 30 months of age or older, and the tonsils and distal ileum of the small intestine of any cattle, regardless of age.
E. All shipments of fresh/frozen pork and pork products must be accompanied by FSIS Form 9060-5, Meat and Poultry Export Certificate of Wholesomeness.
All federally inspected establishments are eligible to export to St. Lucia.
Beef and beef products produced before February 17, 2015 must originate from AMS EV approved establishments.