USDA Tells Vanilla Extract Exporters to Halt Shipments to EU
USDA is advising vanilla extract exporters to stop shipping to the EU after the bloc introduced a new requirement that shippers may not be able to comply with. The EU’s new measure requires “guarantees” from the U.S. government that American vanilla extract shipments comply with the EU’s maximum residue levels of ethylene oxide, but USDA said it can’t provide those guarantees.
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“There is no current U.S. Government process for providing the standardized certificate which the EU is now requiring as a condition for entry,” the agency’s Foreign Agricultural Service said in an Aug. 9 report. “The EU will not accept third party certificates from other testing facilities, including those in the EU. U.S. exporters of vanilla extract are therefore advised not to ship product to the European Union until further notice.”