Singapore currently allows the import of fresh eggs only from accredited farms in Australia, Japan, Malaysia, South Korea, Thailand, Ukraine and the USA
Singapore diners really love one thing that is eggs. In the year 2020, the per capita consumption of eggs was 388 eggs, up from 307 eggs in 2011. As a country they consume 2.21 billion eggs last year. As per Global Import Export Data, to feed our love for eggs, the Singapore food Agency SFA imports up to 74% of the eggs came from Malaysia, followed by small percentage from Australia, Japan and New Zealand.
Japanese egg producer ISE food holdings will set up Singapore’s fourth egg farm which will be operational in the year 2026 and will produce 360 million eggs in a year. Malaysia was the main country from where eggs were imported in Singapore and about 72% of the eggs imported were from Singapore.
As per USA Export Data, currently 11 countries have been approved to export eggs to Singapore they are Australia, Denmark, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Spain, Sweden, South Korea, Thailand, Ukraine and the United States.
As of the year end 2019, approximately 30 million eggs have come from non-conventional sources. This figure has increased up four million back in 2015. In fact by 2017, eggs imported from Thailand alone were already more than four million.
In support of efforts to diversify the country has also started stocking Korean eggs for the first time since South Korea was reinstated as an accredited egg import after the resolution of bird flu outbreak.
Importing eggs from a diversified range of sources is one of the strategies that importers can adopt as part of their BPS so as to improve the resilience of our egg supply. Importers will be granted licenses if their BCPs are satisfactory.
Singapore imported $140M in eggs, making it the 8th largest exporter of eggs in the world. The eggs was the 231st most imported product in Singapore.
As per USA Import Data, Singapore currently allows the import of fresh eggs only from accredited farms in Denmark, Japan, the United States, South Korea, Poland, Sweden and Thailand. Accreditation is required as the eggs can carry food safety risks and animal diseases of public health and trade importance.
The Singapore Food agency accreditation is a two-stage procedure. The first stage involves country accreditation where the country is assessed for regulatory oversight and freedom from animal diseases of important trade and public health concerns.
The second stage involves the individual establishment accreditation, where the food safety and quality programmes and operational hygiene practices of export meat processing plants are evaluated.
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