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Food > Meat and Poultry Products > Manual of Procedures > Chapter 10  

Chapter 10 - Imports

10.1. Introduction

  • 10.1.1 Approval system
  • 10.1.2 Restrictions
  • 10.1.3 Exempted products

10.2. Documents

  • 10.2.1 Official Meat Inspection Certificate
    • 10.2.1.(1) Guidelines for Completing the Offical Meat Inspection Certificate
    • 10.2.1.(2) List of Additional Certification Statements Required from Exporting Countries
    • 10.2.1.(3) Country Codes
    • 10.2.1.(4) Replacement of an official meat inspection certificate
    • 10.2.1.(5) Guaranteed replacement certificates for meat products imported from the U.S.A.
  • 10.2.2 Inspection Certificate for Inedible Meat Products
  • 10.2.3 Import Inspection Report
    • 10.2.3.(1) Completion of the Form
    • 10.2.3.(2) Distribution

10.3. Procedures at port of landing

  • 10.3.1 Shipments originating from countries other that the U.S.A.
    • 10.3.1.(1) Certificates (O.M.I.C.)
    • 10.3.1.(2) Shipments of unmarked meat products or which have been transloaded in the U.S.A.
    • 10.3.1.(3) Labels
    • 10.3.1.(4) Transportation vehicles
    • 10.3.1.(5) Shipments forwarded inland for inspection
    • 10.3.1.(6) Completion of the Import Inspection Report Form CFIA 1422 (see 10.2.3.)
  • 10.3.2 Shipments originating from the U.S.A.
    • 10.3.2.(1) Procedures for U.S. Meat Products Entering a Port of Landing with Import Control System (Computer System)
    • 10.3.2.(2) Procedures for U.S. Meat Products entering at a Port of Landing without Import Control System (Computer System)
    • 10.3.2.(3) Certificates
    • 10.3.2.(4) Labels
    • 10.3.2.(5) Transportation Vehicles
    • 10.3.2.(6) Shipments forwarded inland for inspection
    • 10.3.2.(7) Import Inspection Report Form (CFIA 1422)

10.4 Procedures at inspection points

  • 10.4.1 Certificates and Form CFIA 1422
    • 10.4.1.(1) Count Verification
  • 10.4.2 Labels
    • 10.4.2.(1) Lot disposition for shipping container label compliance
  • 10.4.3 Inspection facilities
  • 10.4.4 Sampling and inspection procedures for fresh meat other than poultry meat, packed in boxes or combos
    • 10.4.4.(1) Visual inspection
    • 10.4.4.(2) Full inspection
  • 10.4.5 High Quality Beef from the U.S.A.
  • 10.4.6 Sampling and inspection procedures for meat products packed in hermetically sealed containers
  • 10.4.7 Sampling and inspection procedures for meat products not dealt with in 10.4.4., 10.4.5. or 10.4.6.

10.5 Results of inspections

10.6 Refused products

10.7 Inedible meat products

10.8 Pet food

Annex A - List of Countries

Annex C - List of countries (not considered free from serious animal disease) from which cooked, frozen, tubed, boneless beef may be imported (specially approved establishments only)

Annex D - List of countries from which dried hog casings may be imported

Annex E - List of countries from which rabbit meat may be imported

Annex J - Labelling requirements for shipping cartons exempted from registration

Annex M - Sampling table for laboratory analysis

Annex N - Labelling Requirements

Annex Q - GRADE MARKING REQUIREMENTS FOR IMPORTED BEEF

Annex R - COMMON NAMES OF POULTRY CARCASSES



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