Eligibility of Lithuania to Export Egg Products to the United States

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is proposing to add Lithuania to the list of countries eligible to export egg products to the United States. After extensive review, FSIS determined that Lithuania's egg product laws, regulations, and inspection system achieve an equivalent level of protection as applied domestically in the United States under the Egg Products Inspection Act (EPIA) and its implementing regulations.
FSIS is requesting public comment before it makes a final determination. Should FSIS make a final determination to list Lithuania as eligible to ship egg products to the United States, only egg products produced in certified Lithuanian establishments would be eligible for export to the United States. Imported Lithuanian egg products would be subject to reinspection at U.S. points-of-entry by FSIS inspectors and FSIS would evaluate and verify on an ongoing basis the equivalence of Lithuania's food safety inspection system for egg products through document reviews, on-site audits, and point-of-entry reinspection, as done for all countries exporting to the United States. FSIS will announce its final determination in a subsequent Federal Register notice.

Full text for this Federal Register notice (86 FR 73721) can be accessed at: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/12/28/2021-28119/eligibility-of-lithuania-to-export-egg-products-to-the-united-states