The Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service intends to list Lithuania as eligible to export egg products to the U.S. Comments on this proposal are due no later than Feb. 28.
The Egg Product Inspection Act prohibits the importation of egg products capable of use as human food unless they were processed under an approved inspection system of the government of the foreign country of origin and are labeled and packaged in accordance with, and otherwise comply with, the standards of the Act and its regulations. FSIS states that it has reviewed Lithuania's laws, regulations, and documents concerning its egg products inspection system, audited that system as implemented, and determined that it is equivalent to the U.S. system.
Should FSIS make a final determination to list Lithuania as eligible to ship egg products to the U.S., only egg products produced in certified Lithuanian establishments would be eligible. All such products would continue to be subject to reinspection at U.S. points of entry by FSIS inspectors.
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