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Overseas mailing moon cake restricted 34 countries expressly prohibit acceptance
At 11:21 on September 5, 2013 Source: People's Daily Online - Social Channels
People Shanghai September 5 Power (Chenwen Min, Wang Jian) Mid-Autumn Festival approaching, the moon cake as gifts. Nowadays, more and more people began to give friends and relatives living abroad mailing moon cake. Reporters from the Shanghai Port mailing responsible for the inspection and quarantine of Shanghai Railway matter CIQ learned Currently there are 34 countries and territories prohibit acceptance moon cake, some countries have restrictions.
According to reports, because most of the moon cake ingredients contain meat and eggs, there carrying avian flu, foot and mouth disease and other quarantine risk of spread of the disease, while the moon cake mailing a longer period, fillings prone to deterioration, some countries Mailing moon cake immigration restrictive measures. At present, a total of 34 countries and regions banned acceptance moon cake, which 34 countries and regions including Germany, France, Denmark, Spain, Belgium, Hungary, Sweden, Switzerland, Russia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Mexico, Brazil, Uruguay, Colombia , South Korea, Thailand, Singapore, the Philippines, Qatar, India, Indonesia, Myanmar, Saudi Arabia, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon, Burundi, Gabon, Ethiopia, Sudan, Libya.
In addition, some countries have taken restrictive measures mailing moon cake. Such as Australia to be marked as a holiday gift, and can not have egg yolks, meat and other ingredients; United Kingdom, Malaysia banned containing egg yolk and meat moon cake mailing immigration; Canada has also banned meat moon cake with yolk and mail entry, only accept private mutual Send a gift moon cake mail, details of a single, commercial invoices, declarations should use English, French writing and reporting, declarations to indicate the ingredient composition, quantity, origin, value, weight; U.S. FDA must apply in advance by the recipient food registration and confirmation number marked on the details of a single, and the moon cake fillings not contain egg yolks, meat ingredients; Japan was less than 5 kg without quarantine certificates and certificates of origin, but in the moon cake box to indicate the composition and effective date, five kilograms or more must provide the recipient animal and plant quarantine certificate, as well as with the goods the sender certificate of origin, such as meat fillings contain ingredients required to provide proof of origin and health institutions; New Zealand banned containing egg yolk and honey The moon cake stuffing mail immigration; European Union's moon cake containing dried fruit of aflatoxin B1 in the request is higher than Chinese standards; Polish Ministry of Agriculture required to obtain a permit and specify sugar; Vietnam requires weighing 0.5 kg or less, acceptance artificially private, to be marked as a holiday gift, the recipient should provide brochures, description of moon cake as private consumption purposes.
In order to avoid failure to receive the Mid-Autumn Festival gift relatives and friends were disappointed, the relevant departments to remind the mailer mailed prior consultation to learn more about the destination country's quarantine requirements for mail matter, do not send a gift containing a quarantine risk, in addition, should fill out the mail declaration label, put the items in each package are listed.
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