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Recent Updates
- Australia (Feb 25, 2021)
- Mexico (Feb 25, 2021)
- Netherlands (Feb 18, 2021)
- Brazil (Feb 17, 2021)
- Germany (Feb 17, 2021)
- Canada (Feb 8, 2021)
- Italy (Jan 11, 2021)
- Spain (Dec 22, 2020)
- Argentina (Dec 11, 2020)
- San Marino (Dec 11, 2020)
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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.
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Eligible Countries |
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Argentina (Dec 11, 2020) |
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Australia (Feb 25, 2021) |
- Raw and Processed Beef
- Raw and Processed Veal
- Raw and Processed Goat
- Raw and Processed Sheep
(Lamb and Mutton)
- Raw and Processed Pork
- Raw Ostrich
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Austria (Jul 7, 2020) |
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Brazil (Feb 17, 2021) |
- Raw and Processed Beef
- Raw and Processed Pork
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Canada (Feb 8, 2021) |
- 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
- Raw and Processed Goose *
- Raw and Processed Guinea *
- Raw and Processed Squab *
- Raw and Processed Emu *
- Raw and Processed Ostrich *
- Raw and Processed Rhea *
- Raw and Processed Turkey
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Canada (Egg Products) (Oct 1, 2019) |
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Chile (Nov 13, 2020) |
- Raw Beef
- Raw and Processed Chicken
- Raw Sheep (Lamb and Mutton)
- Raw Pork
- Raw and Processed Turkey
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Costa Rica (May 29, 2020) |
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Croatia (Jun 30, 2020) |
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Denmark (Sep 10, 2020) |
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England (See United Kingdom) |
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Finland (Jun 16, 2020) |
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France (Jun 16, 2020) |
- Raw Veal
- Raw and Processed Pork
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Germany (Feb 17, 2021) |
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Honduras (May 29, 2020) |
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Hungary (May 19, 2020) |
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Iceland (May 24, 2017) |
- Raw Sheep (Lamb and Mutton)
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Ireland (Jan 21, 2020) |
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Israel (Jul 2, 2020) |
- Processed Chicken
- Processed Turkey
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Italy (Jan 11, 2021) |
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Japan (Jun 23, 2020) |
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Lithuania (Jul 9, 2020) |
- Processed Beef
- Processed Pork
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Mexico (Feb 25, 2021) |
- Raw and Processed Beef
- Raw and Processed Chicken
- Raw and Processed Goat
- Raw Sheep (Lamb and Mutton)
- Raw and Processed Pork
- Processed Turkey
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Namibia (Sep 20, 2016) |
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Netherlands (Feb 18, 2021) |
- Raw Veal
- Raw and Processed Pork
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Netherlands (Egg Products) (Apr 9, 2018) |
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New Zealand (Nov 5, 2020) |
- Raw and Processed Beef
- Raw and Processed Veal
- Raw and Processed Goat
- Raw and Processed Sheep (Lamb and Mutton)
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Nicaragua (May 29, 2020) |
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Northern Ireland (See United Kingdom) |
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Poland (Aug 18, 2020) |
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Republic of Korea (Aug 27, 2020) |
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San Marino (Dec 11, 2020) |
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Scotland (See United Kingdom) |
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Spain (Dec 22, 2020) |
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Thailand (Feb 20, 2020) |
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The People's Republic of China (June 3, 2020) |
- Raw Siluriformes
- Processed Chicken
- Processed Duck
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United Kingdom2 (Sep 30, 2020) |
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Uruguay (Sep 24, 2020) |
- Raw and Processed Beef
- Raw Sheep (Lamb and Mutton)
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Vietnam (Apr 17, 2018) |
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Wales (See United Kingdom) |
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- 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.
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