Argentina achieved the opening of the Singapore market to meat and pork products, by obtaining authorization for three local refrigerators to export their products to the Asian countryreported the National Service for Agrifood Health and Quality (Senasa).
Senasa received the communication from the Singapore Food Agency (SFA), in which it accepts Senasa’s certificate proposal, The requirements for the export of meat, offal and processed and transformed pork products from Argentina were agreed.
The organization of the Asian country also verified the documentation of the Argentine companies interested in obtaining authorization to export their production once the requirements of the International Veterinary Certificate (CVI) have been agreed.
“It has been a very good joint effort by the different agencies involved in the negotiation, the National Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, Senasa and the Foreign Ministry. The goal is always to open new markets,” said the head of the Ministry. national agricultural portfolio, Juan José Bahillo.
Meanwhile, the president of Senasa, Diana Guillén, said: “We work as a team with the aim of continuing to add markets for the country’s agri-food production, guaranteeing its quality and safety and favoring the creation of work for regional economies.”
For his part, the agency’s vice president, Rodolfo Acerbi, said: “The sanitary standards of the swine industrial plants authorized by Senasa are weighted by different audits of the purchasing countries, and guarantee the health and safety of the processed products that reach the consumers”.
In December 2021, during a virtual inspection, the SFA and the National Parks Board (NParks) of Singapore verified the control system, which included a meeting with Senasa technicians and auditing three establishments, from a list of eight companies that had submitted their documentation.
In April 2022, the SFA sent Senasa a favorable report on the result of the audit, with which progress was made in exchanges for the agreement of the conditions to be certified by the Argentine health agency in the shipment of these goods.
With the Singapore market open, the three companies audited virtually in December were authorized and the remaining five will be authorized by Senasa’s recommendation to its Singaporean counterpart.
Likewise, new establishments that wish to send this type of product may request the destination through a pre-listing system.
So far in 2022, Senasa certified the export to different destinations of more than 8,200 tons of pork products and by-products.
