# Electronic Import Inspection Application and Certification of Imported Products and Foreign Establishments; Amendments To Facilitate the Public Health Information System (PHIS) and Other Changes to Import Inspection Regulations
> **Food Safety and Inspection Service** · Final rule. · Published 2014-09-19 · Effective 2014-11-18 · 79 FR 56220
## Document
- **Document number:** 2014-22206
- **Category:** meat-poultry
- **Sub-agency:** Food Safety and Inspection Service
- **Federal Register citation:** 79 FR 56220
- **CFR reference:** 9 CFR 304
- **Publication date:** 2014-09-19
- **Effective date:** 2014-11-18
- **USDA docket:** Docket No. FSIS-2009-0022
## Abstract

The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is amending the meat, poultry, and egg products import regulations to provide for the Agency's Public Health Information System (PHIS) Import Component. The PHIS Import Component, launched on May 29, 2012, provides an electronic alternative to the paper-based import inspection application and the foreign inspection and foreign establishment certificate processes. The Agency is also removing from the regulations the discontinued "streamlined" import inspection procedures for Canadian product and is requiring Sanitation Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) at official import inspection establishments. In addition to the regulatory amendments outlined above, FSIS is discontinuing its practice of conducting imported product reinspection based on a foreign government's guarantee to replace a lost or incorrect foreign inspection certificate and is clarifying its policy of addressing imported product that is not presented for reinspection.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2014/09/19/2014-22206/electronic-import-inspection-application-and-certification-of-imported-products-and-foreign)
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