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SAFEMEAT NVD ANNOUNCEMENT FOR 2012

To meet Russian market access requirments SAFEMEAT is implementing a 90 day Provissional Russian Export Slaughter Interval (ESI) for products and feed containing oxytetracycline or chlortetracycline - effective 1 January 2012.

Producers must now declare the status of their livestock against this ESI by correctly completing the LPA NVD.

Producers who do not use products or feed containing oxytetracycline or chlortetracycline or comply with the 90 day ESI must write the words "Russian Eligible" on the LPA NVD under Question 9 for cattle and Question 7 for sheep.

Where "Russian Eligible" is written on the LPA NVD it means that the livestock have not been injected with ir ingested feed products containing oxytetracycline and chlortetracycline in the last 90 days. Detection of oxytetracycline or chlortetracycline residues in meat or offal in Ryssia will result in the meat processor, and potentially Australia, being banned from the market.

Russia is Australia's fourth most impoertant market.

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