(From: Sanitary requirements for the exportation of meat and meat products from Italy to Japan).

… Meat and meat products to Japan have to be accompanied by a certificate issued from the factory’s official veterinary, whose form is attached for beef and beef products, pork and pork products, for ovine and goat meat and their products. If meat and meat products pass through the territories of other states to Japan, they have to be transported in a cargo container sealed by the Italian sanitary authorities with an appropriate seal whose imagine is shown in attachment, and conform to the following requests: a circle with a diameter of 3,5 cm, reproducing the following writings: on the top: REPUBBLICA ITALIANA. In the middle: above the factory’s identification number, and under it the consequential numbering of the seal. Beneath: Safety seal- SIGILLO DI GARANZIA