OIE confirms Brazilian beef risk is negligible but recommends strong monitoring
11/02/2013
At its recent biannual meeting, the OIE Scientific Commission for Animal Diseases addressed the issues surrounding the occurrence in 2010 and was briefed by a delegation from Brazil on the sequence of events.
The commission confirmed that the identification of this single case of BSE has not put the country’s or its trading partners’ animal and public health at risk, notably because the animal was destroyed and no parts of it entered the food or feed chain.
However, there had been a “considerable delay” before Brazil sent the clinical samples for a confirmatory diagnosis to an OIE reference laboratory, and so the commission has requested “detailed information on the procedures for processing samples and the improvement of the surveillance system in the country”.
Nine countries have banned Brazilian beef imports since the end of last year: Japan, China, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Taiwan, Peru, Belarus and Qatar.
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