Japan lifts embargo on Brazilian chicken imports

Japan Lift the embargo imposed on the United States a month ago meat imports Chicken from Brazil State Santa Catarina The Governor of the (South) Region, Jorginho Mello, announced this Friday that there were two cases of avian influenza infection in poultry.

“Santa Catarina is free of bird flu. We are a benchmark country in terms of animal health and the specific problem of bird flu has been addressed,” Mello said in a statement cited by the state company announcing the end of the embargo. Santa Catarina State Agency

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Japan is the main buyer of Santa Catarina chicken, accounting for 14.75% of the region’s exports, equivalent to $310.8 million in 2022.

Brazil is the world’s largest chicken exporter, accounting for 35% of the international market. Due to the first outbreak of wild bird flu, Brazil declared a national animal health emergency on May 22.

To date, 80 outbreaks of the disease have been detected, most of them in wild birds and only 2 in domestic food animals, one in Espirito Santo state and one in Santa Cata Rina state, which led Japan to impose an embargo on July 17.

Since the introduction of the disease into the country, no cases of the disease have been recorded on commercial farms.

minister agricultureCarlos Favaro traveled to Japan in July to discuss the case with the country’s authorities and met with governors and representatives of 27 Brazilian states, asking them to step up containment efforts to prevent the spread of the disease.

In 2017, the total export volume of chicken meat was 2.63 million tons Brazil In the first half of this year, Japan exported 219,800 tonnes, up 8.5% from the same period in 2022, official data showed.