General requirements for entry

a) The country of origin of the products is recognized by the World Organization for Animal Health (OMSA) as a country of negligible risk for Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) and maintains a surveillance program for the disease according to the recommendations of the OMSA Terrestrial Animal Health Code.

b) The raw material from which the products are derived originates from the country of manufacture or has been imported from countries recognized by OMSA as having a negligible risk for BSE and that maintain a surveillance program for the disease, or the treatments established in this resolution have been applied.

    c) The raw material that originates the products comes from animals that have been slaughtered in slaughterhouses authorized by the competent authority and inspected ante mortem and post mortem, and are considered fit for human consumption.