CHL/767
WTO/SPS
CL Chile
  • 65 - Agriculture
2023-10-15
2023-08-25

Tallow or fat of bovine animals, pigs, sheep, goats and poultry

Modifica la "Resolución Exenta 3.211/2022 que fija exigencias sanitarias para la internación a Chile de sebo o grasa de bovino, porcino, ovino, caprino y aves, y deja sin efecto resoluciones que indica". (Amendment to "Exempt Resolution No. 3.211 of 2022 establishing sanitary requirements for the importation into Chile of tallow or fat of bovine animals, pigs, sheep, goats and poultry, and repealing the Resolutions indicated") Language(s): Spanish. Number of pages: 2

The draft standard seeks to amend "Exempt Resolution No. 3.211 of 2022 establishing sanitary requirements for the importation into Chile of tallow or fat of bovine animals, pigs, sheep, goats and poultry, and repealing the Resolutions indicated" of the Agriculture and Livestock Service, as follows:

·         The phrase "Hog fats and edible pig skin" is added after the word "poultry" in the text of the Resolution;

·         In paragraph No. 1(b), the phrase "Hog fats" is replaced with "Hog fats, pig fat or edible pig skin";

·         In paragraph No. 2, item (a) and points (i) and (ii) are replaced. Provision of treatment options for the products and species identified, for Foot and Mouth Disease and Classical and African Swine Fever. Item (b) is also replaced in this paragraph to the effect that if a treatment other than this measure is used, "the health authority may present a document, describing in detail the treatment, whose efficacy or capacity to inactivate the virus(es) of interest is scientifically demonstrated, for evaluation by the SAG". Further details can be found in the document attached to this notification.