India, Namibia and Albania suspended the importation of chicken meat from Brazil, after confirming a case of Avian flu in Granja Comercial in Montenegro (RS) last Friday (23), according to information from the Ministry of Agriculture.
In all, exports of chicken meat from all over the Brazilian territory are suspended to 23 destinations, according to the most recent survey of the ministry.
However, on Friday, the Brazilian government obtained the South Korea the indication that the Asian country will block only gaucho chicken meathe said in an interview with journalists.
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Temporarily paused are the shipments of Brazilian poultry products to:
- China;
- European Union;
- Mexico;
- Iraq;
- Chile;
- Filipinas;
- South Africa;
- Jordan;
- Peru;
- Canada;
- Dominican Republic;
- Uruguay;
- Malaysia;
- Argentina;
- Timor-Leste;
- Morocco;
- Bolivia;
- Namibia;
- India;
- Sri Lanka;
- Albania;
- Pakistan.
The list includes nations that suspended imports of poultry products in Brazil and for which Brazil interrupted the certification of exports as provided for in the sanitary agreement established with each country.
The temporary and precautionary suspensions of Brazilian chicken purchases from all over the Brazilian territory, the state of Rio Grande do Sul, the municipality of Montenegro or the radius of 10 km from where the focus was detected are foreseen in the sanitary protocol agreed with Brazil and importing countries.
There are also markets for which chicken exports from Rio Grande do Sul are prevented.
- Saudi Arabia;
- United Kingdom;
- Europe Union (Russia, Belarus, Armenia and Kyrguistan);
- Angola;
- Türkiye;
- Bahrain;
- Cuba;
- Macedonia;
- Montenegro;
- CASAQUISTAN;
- Bosnia and Herzegovina;
- Tajikistan;
- South Korea;
- Ukraine.
O Japan and the UAE United suspended chicken meat purchases and derivatives from the municipality of Montenegro (RS), where the focus of the disease was detected, as provided for in the protocol agreed by countries with Brazil.
Already the protocols agreed between Brazil and Singapore, Hong Kong, Algeria, India, Lesoto, Myanmar, Paraguay, St. Christopher and Nevis, Suriname, USBequistan, Vanuatu and Vietnam foresee the regionalization of shipments to a radius of 10 kilometers from high pathogenicity (IAAP) influenza focus.
The Brazilian government is already negotiating with poultry importing countries the flexibility of chicken and derivative meat purchases in Brazil.
The conversations are already underway to minimize the impacts of the first focus of avian flu on commercial squad on the country on the Brazilian agribusiness trade scale.
