NOTICE: Final Rule Regarding Imports and BSE Effective March 4, 2014

The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) published a final rule to amend Federal import regulations for animals and animal products with regard to Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) which becomes effective next month.

 

The final rule describes a new system for classifying regions in other countries as negligible, controlled and undetermined risk for BSE. The final rule also revises the conditions for the specific importation of bovine products and removes restrictions on the importation of cervids and camelids, and products derived from such animals.

 

Certain commodities (as described in the rule) may be imported into the United States from regions that APHIS designates as negligible, controlled, or undetermined risk, under conditions prescribed by the new BSE regulations (provided other import requirements mitigating the risk of foreign animal diseases, such as foot and mouth disease, are met).

 

Click here for the Federal Register Notice, published December 4, 2013, for more detail on the final BSE rule which will be in effect from March 4, 2014. Please also visit our website to review an Import Alert describing implementation under the final rule.

 

                         

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