USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) has advised that Chile's Ministry of Agriculture (SAG) will start cracking down on imports of dairy products that do not have consistent plant identification between the Chile plant list, the AMS sanitary certificate, and the product label. Exporters must ensure that the plant number on the product label matches the plant number in the List of U.S. Dairy Product Manufacturers/Processors With Interest in Exporting to Chile and the sanitary certificate, which in most cases is the FDA plant number. The government of Chile has alerted FDA and USDA that starting July 2021, any products missing the plant number on the product label will be rejected. Additional information on exporting dairy products to Chile is included in Volume 2 of the USDEC Export Guide.

Please contact Oscar Ferrara at oferrrara@usdec.org with questions.