1.1. Prohibited

The Department is not aware of any prohibited edible non-prescribed products.

1.2. Conditions

Compliance with domestic requirements. Edible non-prescribed goods usually do not require a certificate for this market. The Singapore Food Agency (SFA) requires an import permit for all food and food products brought into Singapore, regardless of the mode of transport (for example, by air, land, sea or parcel post).

For detailed information about importing commercial food into Singapore, please refer to the SFA website.

3.1 Government certification

An NX188M (NEXDOC) certificate with endorsement 9004 is issued for the export of edible gelatine/collagen derived from bovine skin and hide to Singapore.​

NEXDOC endorsement 9004

The product was prepared exclusively from hide and skin.

The manual product description field of the NEXDOC Request for Export (REX) must be completed using the following format:

[Type of product] –– [Best before date] - [Country of Origin]

For example:

Edible Bovine Gelatine – Best Before: 31/12/2024 – Origin of Australia

The batch code field of the NEXDOC REX must be completed.​

​Under Clause 10A of Singapore’s Sale of Food Act, where changes are required to be made to the expiry date for food products (for example, following a change in trade description) a new label must be applied. Changes to product expiry dates must not occur by altering existing labels.​