EU follows China and bans Brazilian poultry exports after bird flu outbreak
This comes after Brazil confirmed its first outbreak of bird flu on a poultry farm on Friday, triggering protocols for a countrywide trade ban from top buyer China and statewide restrictions for other major consumers such as Japan.
'EU import conditions require that the country of export [Brazil] is free of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza,' a European Commission spokesperson said in an email.
'Brazilian authorities can no longer sign such animal health certificates for export into the EU and such certificates cannot be issued. No poultry/meat products can be exported to the EU from any part of the Brazilian territory.'
Brazilian Agriculture Minister Carlos Favaro said on Friday that under existing protocols, countries including China, the European Union and South Korea would ban poultry imports from Brazil for 60 days.
Health and safety agents setting up disinfection barriers to contain the first confirmed case of bird flu in commercial poultry, in the municipality of Montenegro, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil, on May 17. Photo: AP
But the Commission did not give any time frame. It noted that because of the outbreak, which was detected on a farm in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, the entire territory of Brazil had suspended its official status of being 'free of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza'. EU import conditions require that an export country be free of this disease.
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