China Announces Quarantine Requirements for Barley Flour for Feed From Kazakhstan
China's General Administration of Customs laid out the plant quarantine requirements for imported barley flour for feed in an Aug. 20 announcement, according to an unofficial translation. The quarantine requirements apply to the fine powdered feed material (whole barley flour,…
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containing bran) obtained by processing barley in Kazakhstan. Such products must clear Chinese phytosanitary requirements, which include the proper wet heat treatment in the barley production facilities. This treatment must be less than five minutes, above 85 degrees Celsius and greater than 80% humidity. The barley flour for feed shall not contain weed seeds, live insects, other grain impurities, plant residues, soil and other quarantine pests, other quarantine objects, impurities, etc., the announcement said.