Costa Rica – Ministry of Health will verify the origin of imported foods according to the Free Sale Certificate (FSC)

The Ministry of Health has published CIRCULAR MS-DRPIRS-UVC-001-2026 on the consistency between the Free Sale Certificate (FSC) and the country of origin in food sanitary registrations.

It states that:

The sanitary records of food that have presented a CLV corresponding to the country of origin must ensure that the imports of the product are carried out.
effectively from that country. The Ministry of Health, in exercising its powers of surveillance, control, and inspection, may verify that there is correspondence between the issuing country of the CLV and the country from which the importation is carried out.