{"id":41234,"date":"2026-04-02T15:50:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T07:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=41234"},"modified":"2026-04-02T15:50:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T07:50:47","slug":"singapore-gives-green-light-for-pork-blood-products-after-almost-three-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=41234","title":{"rendered":"Singapore gives green light for pork blood products after almost three decades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SINGAPORE: Lovers of pork blood rejoice, as the delicacy will soon hit the shelves in Singapore after a 27-year absence.<\/p>\n<p>The Singapore Food Agency (SFA) announced on Wednesday (Apr 1) that it had approved the import of heat-treated pork blood products from an accredited establishment, the Bangkhla Pig Slaughterhouse in Thailand.<\/p>\n<p>The agency said the pig blood products from the company will be allowed for import following food safety assessments.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Each consignment must be accompanied by an official health certificate issued by the Department of Livestock Development (DLD) for Thailand, certifying that the import complies with Singapore&#8217;s animal health and food safety requirements,&#8221; SFA said.<\/p>\n<p>The agency also reminded traders that pork and pork products can only be imported from SFA-approved sources.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span>Animal blood food products, including pork blood and duck blood,<\/span> have been banned in Singapore since 1999.<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, a woman was fined S$8,000 for possessing and selling illegally imported pig blood curd.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/singapore\/singapore-food-agency-thailand-pig-blood-products-6033126\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE: Lovers of pork blood rejoice, as the delicacy will soon hit the shelves in Singapore after a 27-year absence. The Singapore Food Agency (SFA)&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--Dl4E8YGI--\/c_crop,h_540,w_960,x_0,y_0\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/f_auto,q_auto\/pig-blood-curd-seized-by-sfa--2-.jpg?itok=aJ78hB-q","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[180,3700,2502,536,144,6214,22],"class_list":["post-41234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-blood","tag-decades","tag-green","tag-light","tag-pork","tag-products","tag-singapore","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}