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You must follow the guidance for importing animal products when you import any food that contains animal products such as meat, dairy or eggs. This includes compound products.

This guidance explains additional things you need to do when importing compound products.

Compound products聽definition

Compound products are food products for human consumption that both:

• contain more than one product of animal origin (POAO)
• cannot be defined as composite products

The POAO can be processed or unprocessed鈥�.

Examples of compound products include:

• cured sausage聽that contains pork and cheese
• omelette that contains eggs and cheese 聽 聽
• chicken Kyiv that contains chicken and butter
• battered cheese and ham bites

Check the definition of composite products.

If you鈥檙e not sure if your product is a compound or composite product, contact the border control post where your product will enter the UK for confirmation.

Documents required for compound products

You need:

• a health certificate for each medium聽risk聽POAO听别濒别尘别苍迟
• one commercial document with details of all the low risk elements

You may also need an import licence or authorisation for some products.

Find more information on these documents in the guidance on importing animal products.

Products that contain fish

If your product contains fish or fishery products you may need a catch certificate, a processing statement and proof of storage.

Find out more in the聽guidance on importing fish.

High risk food

You should check if your product contains any high risk food of non-animal origin (HRFNAO). If it does you鈥檒l need to meet additional requirements.

Import notifications for compound products

For compound products, you need to enter the commodity code for each element in your import notification on IPAFFS.

You need to provide the weight of each element of the product. The sum of the weights must equal the total weight. It is important that the weight specified in your import notification on IPAFFS and your customs declaration are the same.

Uploading multiple health certificates

All medium risk elements require a health certificate. You can upload one health certificate into the 鈥榟ealth certificate鈥� field and any remaining health certificates into the 鈥榓ccompanying documents鈥� field.

When you need to submit multiple import notifications

You need to submit an additional import notification on IPAFFS if your product contains any other commodity types that require an import notification. Commodity types include plant products, high risk food and feed of non-animal origin (HRFNAO), and animal products. 聽

For example, if your product contains聽HRFNAO聽and animal products, you need to:聽 聽

• submit a聽CHED.D for the聽HRFNAO听听
• submit a聽CHED.P for the animal products聽 聽

Cross-referencing notifications

If your compound product requires multiple import notifications on IPAFFS, you should include all the聽reference numbers in the commercial documents for each import notification.聽

You also need to enter these reference numbers in your customs declaration on the Customs Declaration Service (CDS) - in the field labelled 鈥榙ata element鈥�(DE) 2/3鈥�. You should write the reference number in the following format - GBCHDyyyy.nnnnnnn.

If any聽reference numbers are missing, your products may be held at the border until this is resolved. Find more guidance on聽how to enter data into聽CDS.