Mexico announced on Monday the sanitary requirements that open first doors for importing beef from Brazil, while the government President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is looking for sources of food to fight high inflation.
The state of Santa Catarina will be able to export fresh, chilled or frozen meat with bones because it has FMD status without vaccination, the Minister of Agriculture (Sader) said in a statement.
Another 14 Brazilian states, including important producers such as Goiás, Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul, will only be able to export to Mexico. aged and boneless meat taking into account the state of health, free from foot-and-mouth disease, vaccinated.
The government statement said the meat imports from Brazil are part of measures being taken to facilitate international food trade and thus diversify sources of supply, “through which it contributes to the Mexican government’s inflation and high cost policy.” products in the basic food basket for the benefit of the Mexican population.
The agency has also taken steps to ensure the safety of food to be imported from Brazil, which requires meat supplies to come from authorized factories that have demonstrated rigorous product traceability programs, and to minimize the risk of contaminants that could be harmful to health. consumers.
Mexico’s support for Brazilian beef has been criticized by local producers who warn about health risks. Brazil has been trying for years to get permission from the North American country to send meat to its territory.
López Obrador launched several programs to fight inflation, which showed no signs of slowing down, mainly the main, the best parameter for measuring the price trajectory, which prompted the Bank of Mexico to raise its key rate to the current 11%.
Last week, the president said he had spoken to several of their Hispanic counterparts launch a joint plan to combat inflation, which will include the abolition of tariffs and other measures on trade in food and goods.
Seider also said that Brazil maintained its health status at a negligible risk of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), known as “mad cow disease”, after a case was discovered in that country in late February.
Learning about infection The state of Pará, Brazil, has announced the suspension of meat exports to China, of which it is a major supplier.
Low risk of mad cow disease
The Mexican government has stated that Brazil maintains its status of negligible risk for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), a disease known as “mad cow disease”.
Sader said a suspected case found in Brazil in late February was classified as an “isolated case of atypical BSE type H”.
This type of disease occurs naturally and sporadically in older cows, is not transmissible and does not pose any risk to animals or humans, so Brazil maintains a BSE status of negligible risk, the same as Mexico.
According to Reuters.
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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