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(Revised) Import Requirements For Importing Animal Feed

Official title

(Revised) Import Requirements For Importing Animal Feed Containing Meat Or Meat Products Into Singapore

Singapore notified this proposed SPS measure to the WTO on 10 July 2026. The comment period closed on 8 September 2026.

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Products

Livestock feed containing meat

HS codes
  • 04 · Dairy produce; birds' eggs; natural honey; edible products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included
    • 040210 Milk and cream in solid forms, of a fat content by weight of <= 1,5%
    • 040221 Milk and cream in solid forms, of a fat content by weight of > 1,5%, unsweetened
    • 040229 Milk and cream in solid forms, of a fat content by weight of > 1,5%, sweetened
    • 040410 Whey and modified whey, whether or not concentrated or containing added sugar or other sweetening matter
  • 05 · Animal originated products; not elsewhere specified or included
    • 051199 Products of animal origin, n.e.s., dead animals, unfit for human consumption (excl. fish, crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates)
All 12 codes
  • 15 · Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes
    • 1503 Lard stearin, lard oil, oleostearin, oleo-oil and tallow oil, not emulsified or mixed or otherwise prepared.
    • 150410 Fish-liver oils and their fractions, whether or not refined (excl. chemically modified)
    • 150420 Fats and oils of fish and their fractions, whether or not refined (excl. liver oils and chemically modified)
    • 1506 Other animal fats and oils and their fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified.
  • 23 · Food industries, residues and wastes thereof; prepared animal fodder
    • 230110 Flours, meals and pellets, of meat or offal, unfit for human consumption; greaves
    • 230120 Flours, meals and pellets of fish or crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates, unfit for human consumption
    • 230990 Preparations of a kind used in animal feeding (excl. dog or cat food put up for retail sale)
Notifying member
Singapore
Status
Proposed measure, not in force yet
Objectives
  • Animal health
  • Protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease
Area
SPS: Food safety, animal and plant healthSanitary and phytosanitary measures
Notification type
Regular notification
Document symbol
G/SPS/N/SGP/92
Keywords
Animal health, Animal diseases

Key dates

Distributed by the WTO
Comment deadline
Closed on 8 September 2026
Proposed adoption
Anticipated September 2026
Proposed entry into force
6 months from adoption

How to comment

The comment period closed on 8 September 2026. You can still raise concerns about the measure with your country's WTO SPS enquiry point, quoting the document symbol G/SPS/N/SGP/92; it can take them up with Singapore.

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What the notification says

Singapore has completed a review of the import conditions for animal feeds containing meat and will be standardising import requirements across all countries including the removal of source and product accreditation. Animal disease attestations have been aligned to the latest World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) guidelines, as part of trade facilitative measures while ensuring human health protection. The revised health certificate attestation has been separated by meat types to tailor specific requirements is listed below. A. For Animal feed containing beef the bovines from which the meat were derived were identified through an animal identification system; AND; they have been subjected to an ante-mortem inspection with favourable results; AND; the bovines were born and kept in: a country, zone or compartment posing a negligible Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) risk; OR; a country, zone or compartment posing a controlled BSE risk after the date from which the risk of BSE agents being recycled within the bovine population has been demonstrated to be negligible; OR; a country, zone or compartment posing a controlled BSE risk before the date from which the risk of the BSE agents being recycled within the bovine population has been demonstrated to be negligible, and the fresh meat and meat products: were derived from bovines not subjected to a stunning process with a device injecting compressed air or gas into the cranial cavity, or to a pithing process, or to any…

Sources

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