Chile proposed Resolution Establishing Sanitary Requirements for the Entry into Chile of Laboratory Rodents

Agricultural and Livestock Service proposed the following sanitary requirements for the entry to Chile of laboratory rodents:

1. Laboratory rodents imported into the country must be covered by an official certificate issued by the competent health authority of the country of origin, stipulating the country and the animal species, the establishment of origin, the number and identification of the animals. Animals (race, sex, age, marks and signs), the consignee and the identification of the means of transport;

2. Animals must come from protected colonies (Barrier Colonies) free of specific pathogens (SPF). Laboratory rodents should be monitored frequently and be free of clinical signs of viral diseases such as Ectromelia, Sendai virus, Lymphocytic choriomeningitis, California encephalitis, Argentina (Juvin virus) and Bolivian (black typhus) hemorrhagic fever, and the following bacterial diseases: Salmonellosis, Tularemia, Leptospirosis, Pseudotuberculosis and rat bite fever;

3. Animals should come from colonies that are frequently monitored and free of internal and external parasites that may affect laboratory rodents including Polyplax serratia, Myobia musculi, Radfordia affinis, Myocoptes musculinia, and Psorergates simplex;

4. Animals must have been treated with external and internal antiparasitics within 30 (thirty) days prior to shipment;

5. At the time of boarding, the animals should not show signs of disease, or evidence of external parasites;

6. Transportation from the place of origin to the place of shipment must be carried out under official control in neat and disinfected vehicles, without coming into contact with non-export animals;

7. The importer must prove his status as a research or diagnostic laboratory and comply with the conditions that ensure adequate maintenance of the animals;

8. Upon entry into the country, together with the sanitary certificate, the Resolution of authorization of exotic wildlife issued by the Division of Renewable Natural Resources of the SAG must be presented;

9. If the species to be imported is included in the appendices of the CITES Convention, compliance with the requirements of the same and current regulations on the subject must be complied with;

10. Exempt Exempt Resolution No. 809 of 2003, from the Agricultural and Livestock Service that sets sanitary requirements for the entry into Chile of laboratory rodents.

Products covered: Laboratory rodents

HS code: 0106

Proposed date of adoption: NA

Proposed date of entry into force: NA

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