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Guidance on exporting food and feed
The Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) has published guidance for businesses on the rules for exporting products of animal origin, including to European Union (EU) countries:
- Food and drink businesses: working with the EU
- Webinars for exporters of products of animal origin, live animals, plants and plant products
- Guidance on importing and exporting live animals or animal products
- Export or move composite food products
- Exporting or moving fish from the UK
- Aquatic animal health and movements guides
- Get an export health certificate (EHC)
- How to register for an export health certificate online
- Exporting Products of Animal Origin (POAO) from Great Britain to the European Union
- Exporting Fish and Fishery Products for Human Consumption from Great Britain to the European Union
Read further guidance on the new rules for exporting or moving high risk food and feed of non-animal origin (HRFNAO) from Great Britain (GB) to EU countries or Northern Ireland.
Guidance for Certification Hubs
The following guidance is effective as of 1 January 2021:
Foodstuffs with current (EU) restrictions
Controls exist on certain foodstuffs from certain countries to protect public health. These may either specify conditions of import or suspend imports depending on the risk.
Consignments of controlled products can only be imported through designated Border Control Points. On presentation, documentary checks must be carried out in addition to sampling and analysis or examination. This increase in official controls take place prior to a consignment being cleared for import. Specific products are currently under harmonised controls in the EU that control their importation from specific non-EU countries. See a list of foodstuffs with current European Union (EU) restrictions.
Shellfish trading requirements
Pectinidae (e.g. scallops), tunicates (e.g. sea squirts, sea cucumbers and sea urchins) and marine gastropods (e.g. winkles and whelks etc.) which are harvested and landed in Great Britain, are permitted to be traded without a Site Identification Number (SIN) code (previously called GBR code), as they are not filter feeders as specified in the relevant regulation.
All other live bivalve molluscs (LBMs) will need a SIN code.
Before they can be placed on the market for human consumption and be eligible for export health certification, they will require to have passed through one of the following types of approved premises – a fish auction, a dispatch centre or a processing establishment. See the Scottish list of approved food establishments.
The shellfish sector will be kept informed on any updates to requirements for completing their movement documents.
Exporting animal feed
Please the below links for additional information on animal feed exports from Great Britain.
