"Matthew Caesar" <mcaesar@student.nospam.umass.edu> wrote in message news:<3fdcbaba$1@news-1.oit.umass.edu>...
> Does anyone have any experience bringing meat (specifically, dried salami)
> into Japan?  I'm looking to bring two or three with me as gifts when I make
> a trip over there on the 28th.  I found a website run by the Japanese gov't
> (http://www.maff-aqs.go.jp/english/ryoko/aq2/aq2.htm) that seems to say it's
> ok, and I even submitted a question, and they said it was alright as well,
> but I needed to have a certificate from the United Stated Dept. of
> Agriculture saying that the salami originated from a healthy animal.

Some people just send by mail. No certificates.

Rafael Caetano