Japan's strict requirements on imported animal products (12.22)

In recent years, the per capita share of global meat consumption is increasing by about 3% every year Japan 's animal products are highly dependent on foreign countries The annual import of meat products is between 500 thousand and 700000 tons With the improvement of consumers' awareness of safe and healthy food, Japan's requirements for imported animal products are more and more strict The Japanese government has promulgated new laws and regulations Since April 1 this year, Japan has implemented new standards for imported beef, horse meat, poultry meat and their products; since April 1, 2002, Japan has implemented new standards for imported pork, mutton and goat meat The new standards mainly put forward new requirements for the facility structure, health management and inspection and quarantine methods of slaughtering and processing plants for livestock and poultry, among which the management of production plants will be changed from the current requirements of the exporting country to the requirements of Japan; the requirements for the official inspection and management of the exporting country are that the veterinary officers of the inspection and quarantine department must carry out the whole process of slaughtering and processing Inspection, quarantine and supervision This Law stipulates that from the date of implementation, only the livestock and poultry meat production enterprises that have implemented the new standards can export animal products to Japan Japan expressly prohibits the import of animal products suffering from severe infectious diseases such as foot-and-mouth disease, rinderpest and African swine fever, including the meat, viscera and products of cloven hoofed animals from specific areas that may spread these severe infectious diseases The Japanese government requires that the imported animal products must be produced in accordance with the hot processing standards stipulated by the Ministry of agriculture, forestry and Fisheries of Japan, and be processed by the processing plants that are assessed by the government agencies of the exporting countries as meeting the standards stipulated by the Ministry of agriculture, forestry and Fisheries of Japan or directly designated by the Ministry of agriculture, forestry and Fisheries of Japan China is a big producer of animal products, and Japan is one of the important export markets of animal products Therefore, the relevant enterprises and departments of our country should attach great importance to the processing standards of animal products and the import regulations of animal products proposed by the Japanese government, so as to ensure and strive to further expand the share of our animal products in the Japanese market China feed industry information network BKR (author:)