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Qatar and Belarus take up Brazilian beef ban

28/01/2013
Two more countries, Qatar and Belarus, have decided to ban imports of Brazilian beef. This takes to nine the number of countries refusing to accept shipments of beef from Brazil since 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 bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE).

A statement from the OIE said the animal did not die of BSE and the likelihood is of an atypical case of the disease occurring in an older animal. At the start of 2013, the OIE said there was no justification for any country banning imports of Brazilian beef. The nine countries that have ignored this advice are Japan, China, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Taiwan, Peru and now Belarus and Qatar too.

In addition, Lebanon and Jordan have suspended shipments of beef from the Brazilian state of Paraná, where the cow in question came from and Chile has said it will accept no bonemeal from Brazil. A Brazilian delegation also travelled to Iran in late January to allay concerns of the government there about the situation.

Brazil’s ministry of agriculture has calculated that, together, these countries represent around 5% of the export market for Brazilian beef. It added that, in the first three weeks of January, exports of Brazilian beef were 45.7% higher than a year earlier.

In the case of one country, China, the controversy is also affecting shipments of raw hides.




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