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Commercial Information Circulars

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Ref : EIC 697/2/2

17 February 2000

Dear Sirs,

Commercial Information Circular No. 20/00

Singapore : The Wholesome Meat and Fish Act 1999

The Singapore authorities have enacted the Wholesome Meat and Fish Act 1999. Under the Act, traders in Singapore who import, export or tranship meat products and fish products, and import and tranship fresh fruit and vegetables are required to be licensed by the Primary Production Department (PPD) of Singapore. For some products like frozen cooked crab meat, frozen cooked prawns, a health certificate issued by the relevant Government authorities is also required. An explanatory notes of the new requirements is at Annex.

DETAILS

  1. The effective date of the Act is 10 December 1999.

ENQUIRIES

  1. For enquiries concerning the contents of this circular, please contact the undersigned at telephone number 2398 5671. For enquiries on the procedure for issuance of health certificate for Hong Kong's export of affected product to Singapore, please contact Mr. W.M. NG, Chief Health Inspector (Import/Export) of the Food Surveillance and Certification Section of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department at telephone number 2867 5570.

 

Yours faithfully,

 

(Miss Alicia WONG)

for Director-General of Trade



Note : While every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of the above information, the Department cannot guarantee this to be so and will not be held liable for any reliance placed on the same.