LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 24 February 2020

* The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Food and Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) has informed Brazil’s agriculture ministry (Mapa) that it is resuming imports of beef from the South American country. “Today we received with a lot of satisfaction much awaited news: the reopening of the US to Brazil’s fresh beef market. […] It is great news, because this brings recognition of the quality of Brazilian beef for a market as important as the US”, Brazil’s agriculture minister, Tereza Cristina da Costa Dias, said on 21 February. The US had suspended imports of Brazilian beef in 2017 due to reactions in the herds to the vaccine against foot-and-mouth disease. The FSIS says that Brazil has now “corrected the systemic problems” which led to the suspension of beef imports, and that the resumption of sales of fresh beef to the US is effective immediately.

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