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Brazil considers beef-ban complaint

03/01/2013
A ban on imports of Brazilian beef continues in China, Japan, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and South Korea following confirmation of case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE). The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) reported in December 2012 that tests on a cow that died in Brazil in 2010 had, eventually, shown evidence of the disease.

According to a statement from the OIE, the animal did not die of BSE and the likelihood is of an atypical case of the disease occurring in an older animal.

In the face of the ongoing block on beef imports from the South American country by this group of important trading partners, Brazil’s minister for development, industry and overseas trade, Tatiana Prazeres, said on January 2 that her government was considering making a formal complaint to the World Trade Organization.

Lebanon has banned imports of cattle and beef from the state in which the case of BSE occurred, Paraná. Chile has banned imports of bone-meal from Brazil.







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