Can you bring meat or dairy products to Ireland?

• Meat & dairy

  prohibited

  Personal consignments of meat, milk or their products are not allowed from non-EU countries (including Great Britain), with a narrow exception for products from the Faroe Islands or Greenland (10 kg combined). Allowed in luggage from outside the EU: powdered infant milk/infant formula and special foods required for medical reasons (combined 2 kg, sealed and branded); fish and shellfish up to 20 kg or the weight of one fish; other animal products such as honey up to 2 kg; and a defined list of low-risk products (bread, cakes, biscuits, chocolate and confectionery, pasta and noodles not mixed with meat, soup stocks and flavourings, coffee/tea extracts, liqueurs and cordials).

  Live animals (including live insects) may not be brought in luggage from non-EU countries. The rule covers goods moving from Great Britain but not from Northern Ireland. Meat/milk personal imports can carry Foot and Mouth Disease and African Swine Fever, which is why the ban applies even to small quantities and to online orders by post or courier.

  Also covers: meat, dairy, cheese, milk, ham, sausage, fish, honey, infant formula, baby milk

  Checked 2026-09-21 — Source: Food Safety Authority of Ireland — Personal Imports (food that can be brought from a third country for personal use); Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine — Personal Consignments in Luggage

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