Brazilian zoosanitary requirements for the import of live bivalves molluscs, or its products, for food originating in extractive fishing or aquaculture

Addendum to Regular Notification 2021-10-18
G/SPS/N/BRA/901/Rev.2/Add.1

Description

For the certification for importing bivalve molluscs for human consumption, the health authority of the country exporter must include animal health requirements RIG.ML.AH.SET.21 in the Certificate Sanitary International (CSI) templates for importing fish, fish products and extractive fishing. It is also important to highlight that, in order to export products of animal origin for human consumption, the country and the establishments need to be authorized to export to Brazil, pursuant to Normative Instruction No. 35 of 25 September 2018.

Keywords

Food safety; Animal health; Human health; Modification of content/scope of regulation