Alerts

The Department of Agriculture and Water Resources has recently completed a review of the conditions for importing retorted animal based products for human consumption resulting in the following changes;

1. Conditions for retorted meat, snails, frogs legs, prawns, canned or retorted salmonidae finfish, canned egg products and birds nest have been moved from their respective cases into a new BICON case called ‘Retorted animal products for human consumption’.
   
   

2. The new BICON case ‘Retorted animal products for human consumption’ includes content changes affecting the following import scenarios:
   

   • Goods for personal use (content restructure only)
     

   • Aquatic goods and snails (content restructure only)
     

   • Goods containing less than 5% meat (content restructure only)
     

   • Chicken and pork sourced from Australia and/ or New Zealand (changed to standard permit, no content changes)
     

   • All other retorted animal goods - The previous sets of import conditions for retorted goods have been merged into a single set of streamlined import conditions that can now be used to import all retorted goods; regardless of country and specie/s of origin. Upfront assessments are no longer required and a standard permit (reduced fees) will replace the current process.
     

These changes are effective immediately and will affect all future standard permits.

Further information:
For further information, please contact us via one of the following methods:
Email: ABIABImportConditionsReview@agriculture.gov.au
Call: 1800 900 090 (Prompt 3 & ask for the ABIAB ICR section)