Get a Port Health export or import health certificate for food and other goods
Ministry of Health · sources read 4 Oct 2026
Apply on the KenTrade Single Window, with your documents ready. To export food you need a county recommendation, a food hygiene licence and an invoice; to import food or chemicals you need an invoice, a certificate of analysis and a packing list, plus any permit your product needs.
- Fee
- We couldn't confirm a fee from the official page. Check it there before you pay.
- Where
- Online on the KenTrade Single Window (Ministry of Health Port Health Services)
What you need
- Export: a recommendation to export food from the county government where your premises or factory is
- Export: your food hygiene licence
- Export: the invoice, and a certificate of analysis where it applies
- Import: the invoice, a certificate of analysis and a packing list
- The extra permit for your product, e.g. a fisheries or dairy permit, a veterinary certificate, a KEPHIS phytosanitary certificate, or a fumigation certificate for used clothes
Steps
- First get the permit your product needs from its own agency (for example Fisheries, Dairy, Veterinary, Tea or Coffee Board, or KEPHIS).
- For a food export, get a recommendation to export from your county government and make sure your food hygiene licence is valid.
- Log in to the KenTrade Single Window and apply for the Port Health certificate, attaching the common documents plus your product permit.
Watch out
- The common documents are needed on top of your product's own permit, not instead of it.
- Importing cereals, grains or fruit needs a lot: a phytosanitary certificate, a fumigation certificate and a non-GMO certificate from the country of origin, plus a KEPHIS plant import permit.
Who can apply
- Exporters of food such as fish, milk, meat, tea, coffee, eggs, honey, cereals, fruit, vegetables and other manufactured food.
- Importers of food and chemical substances, including cosmetics, chemicals and used clothes, shoes and bedding.
Official sources (3)
- Requirements for Export & Import Health Certificates health.go.ke · read 4 Oct 2026
- List of documents required for export and import health certificates under Port Health Services health.go.ke · read 4 Oct 2026
- KenTrade Single Window (Trade Facilitation Platform) tfp.kenyatradenet.go.ke · read 4 Oct 2026