Applying for an Export Health Certificate or Food Safety Premises Endorsement for Export
Before making an application to the local authority for a Health Certificate or Food Safety Premises Endorsement for Export, please ensure that the product and country is not on the APHA list. If your consignment is going via another country including the EU you must ensure that you check this on the APHA website. This is because different rules and certification requirements may apply. Many consignments travelling via the EU or European Economic Area (EEA) and then transferring to another aircraft, vessel or port will require an application to be made to APHA (and this may be different if the freight is being transhipped in that port or is transiting that country). Please contact APHA to confirm before submitting your request.
When you make your application to the local authority you will be asked to confirm that you have documentation to demonstrate that the products have either been:
Produced/manufactured or otherwise processed by you, and that you have appropriate production records to demonstrate the correct application of your food safety management system including traceability of ingredients used in the products.
And/or
Have been obtained by you from a known and reputable supplier and that you have appropriate records to demonstrate the correct application of your food safety management system including traceability of those products (such as receipts, invoices and/or delivery or collection notes, temperature control, pest control records etc).
You must ensure that you have these documents available should they be required as part of our checks. You may be asked to email these to us or we may examine them as part of a site inspection visit. If you have them to hand you can attach them to your online application.
If you make an application to the local authority and it should be made to APHA, we will refuse the application and advise you to contact APHA. The application fee will still be charged, and no refund will be given.
Apply for an Export Health Certificate (non-APHA) or Food Safety Premises Endorsement for Export