List of products of animal origin

Here is a list of ‘products of animal origin’ that require vet checks at the Border Control Post (BCP)

Please be aware that import requirements frequently change. We strongly advise that you contact DEFRA or our office to clarify any specific import conditions, before it leaves the country of origin.

Authorised officers and official veterinary surgeon (OVS) are involved with checking these products:

• Animal casings
• Apiculture products
• Animal blood products for technical use
• Bones and bone products
• Bristles, wool, hair and feathers
• Crocodile and other reptile meat
• Eggs and egg products
• All fish & fishery products
• Fresh meat or offal, and products, of bovine (beef), ovine (sheep), caprine (goat), porcine (pig) and equine (horse), species
• Frogs legs and snails
• Gelatine
• Hay and straw
• Hides and skins
• Honey
• Horns and horn products, hooves and hoof products
• Hunting trophies
• Lard and rendered fats
• Milk and milk products for human consumption
• Milk and milk products NOT for human consumption
• Pathogens
• Poultry, rabbit, game (farmed or wild) – meat and products
• Animal protein for human consumption
• Animal protein NOT intended for human consumption
• Processed pet food, raw material for the manufacture of pet food
• Raw material, blood, blood products, glands and organs from animals intended for pharmaceutical use
• Animal semen, embryos, ova
• Manure
• Ratites (eg ostrich, rhea).

(Commission Decision 2002/349/EC provides a full list of products subject to checks)