Can you bring meat or dairy products to Egypt?

• Meat & dairy

  depends on specifics

  Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation Decree 1647 (1997) requires importers to apply to the General Organization for Veterinary Services (GOVS) for a permit before bringing in meat/animal products, with the epidemiological status of the country of origin taken into account; a granted permit is valid for 1 month and is renewable.

  The decree's own text and the USDA report describing it are both unreadable in this environment (scanned/binary PDFs) — this is drawn from the report's search-indexed summary rather than a directly read document, similar in tier to how this project has cited a USDA GAIN report for a different country's regulation elsewhere. The permit mechanism reads as built for commercial importers, similar to Kenya's meat-import regulation already in this dataset — no traveler/personal-quantity carve-out was found, so don't assume it applies the same way to a tourist's suitcase as to a commercial shipment. Egypt's National Food Safety Authority took over food-safety regulation generally in 2020 but still relies on GOVS for this specific import-permit mechanism.

  Also covers: meat, dairy, cheese, milk

  Checked 2026-09-19 — Source: USDA FAS GAIN Report — FAIRS Country Report Annual, Cairo Egypt (EG2025-0025), re: Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation Decree 1647 (1997)

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