FDA lifts ban on pork imports from Singapore

After a nine-month ban, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is again allowing pork imports from Singapore after it was declared free from African swine fever virus.

FDA director general Samuel Zacate issued FDA Order No. 2023-0790-A dated Feb. 12 lifting its temporary ban on the importation of domestic and wild pigs and their products, including pork meat, pig skin, processed animal proteins, and semen originating from Singapore.

Citing the evaluation of the Department of Agriculture, the FDA also noted that the “risk of contamination from domestic and wild pigs and their products … originating from Singapore was now negligible.”

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However, the FDA has not yet lifted its ban on pork meat products from 29 countries. —DEXTER CABALZA