The World Animal Health Organisation (OIE) has reinstated the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul as a foot-and-mouth-disease-free area. Speaking in Paris at the OIE meeting, secretary of agricultural development, production, industry, trade and tourism for Mato Grosso do Sul, Tereza Cristina Corrêa da Costa Dias, said: "We are very pleased with the result of our work. We now want to resume sales to Europe and become a state that is seen as a sanitary reference for the rest of Brazil."

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