Regulatory
Serum Industry Regulatory News
The ISIA Regulatory Team continually monitors world-wide regulations that affect the serum industry. We post important updates and new industry regulation information to LinkedIn, Facebook, and to our website.
Global Updates by Region
Staying Informed is Essential
Select a region below to access regulatory updates, guidance documents, and compliance resources relevant to your market.
The Americas +
- Notarization no longer required for "HQ"-level pre-inspection packages (Feb 9, 2026)
- USDA Names New Leadership of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
- Mexico Confirms Case of New World Screwworm in Nuevo Leon
- Stakeholder Alert: Delays in Testing and Release of Quarantined Imported Fetal Bovine Serum
- IMPORTANT: VS Form 16-4 transition period ending
- IMPORTANT: New VS Form 16-4 and transition period
- Proposed conditions: changed requirements for sourcing FBS, additional treatment and testing procedures
- USDA requesting comments on proposed new requirements for the "Product of USA" Label
Asia, Australia & New Zealand +
- Update on Importing Brazilian Origin FBS into China
- Taiwan: Changes to certification requirements for the export of bovine serum
- Notification from DAFF — EU: Amendments to export health certification for animal inedible products
- 2020 New Zealand Regulations for Exporting Animal Products
- Taiwan: Quarantine Requirements for Bovine Serum for Technical Use Amended
Europe and Middle East +
- Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) in the EU: Greece
- Reminder: Intensified Official Controls and Imposed Checks
- DEFRA — New import controls now Live
- DEFRA — The Border Target Operating Model: Compliance and Enforcement Approach Jan 31–Apr 30 2024
- UK model health certificates amended (Oct/Dec 2022) now active and available for use
- Statement on the introduction of planned import controls on EU goods from July 2022
- DEFRA — New Import Controls for Animal Products
- New EU regulation 2002/384 from 4 March 2022 — amending third country lists
- Reminder — IPAFFS pre-notification required for animal products from EU into Great Britain from January 2022
- Information concerning the activation of the DOCOM module in TRACES-NT and closure of TRACES Classic
- New Phased Approach to Import Controls for Products of Animal Origin and Animal By-Products from the EU
- New GB Model Certificates Now Available in iRegs!
- Latest on Importing Animal Products from the European Union into Great Britain
- Extension to grace period for continued acceptance of EU model health certificates in UK — OV NOTICE
- EU Guidance Note: Withdrawal of the United Kingdom and EU Rules in the Field of Customs
- Locating Export Health Certificates for Technical Product (ABP): UK–EU
- Israel: New Certificate for Blood for Technical Uses for All Species
- IPAFFS — System for Import of Animal Products into Great Britain / Important Dates and Information
- ANNOUNCEMENT — Switch to IPAFFS for POAO/CHED-P import notifications on 7 Sept 2020
- Countdown: GB Importers — Switch to IPAFFS for POAO/CHED-P import notifications on 7 Sept 2020
- APHIS — Notice on Live Animal Import and Transit Permits. Effective Immediately
Archived Posts & Updates +
- Serum Importation from USA into Mexico — ISIA Statement
- 131 Top Forms Online Submission Only — Export Health Certificates (3rd countries)
- APHIS Awards Contracts to Provide Eight Million Low-Frequency RFID Tags to Cattle and Bison Producers
- ANNOUNCEMENT — Switch to IPAFFS for POAO/CHED-P import notifications on 7 Sept 2020
- CALL TO ACTION — 2 weeks to go until switch to IPAFFS for GB import notifications
- Countdown — GB Importers — Switch to IPAFFS on 7 Sept 2020
- APHIS — Notice on Live Animal Import and Transit Permits
- Notification from DEFRA — POAO 3rd country imports — changes to systems (High Importance)
- Regulation (EU) 2020/762 amending Regulation (EU) No 142/2011
- Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/714
- USDA APHIS Allows Copies of Veterinary Health Certificate in ACE-DIS due to COVID-19 (through July 18, 2020)
- Message from USDA APHIS — EU HPAI ban on the Entire United States: Effects Certificates for Poultry Derivatives
- USDA APHIS Allows Copies of Veterinary Health Certificate in ACE-DIS due to COVID-19
- TRACES.NT registration
- TRACES NT users — completion of box I.28 to avoid delays to consignments
- Transition to TRACES — New Technology for Live Animals 01:00 GMT 5 March 2020
- URGENT — Importers of live animals, POAO or HRFNAO must prepare for system changes
- Feb. 13 — Importers of HRFNAO from outside the EU must use TRACES NT now
- TWO NEW REGULATIONS FROM DEFRA: Smarter Rules for Safer Food
- UK will leave the European Union on 31st January 2020
- DEFRA Import and Export Newsletter
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