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LatinNews Daily - 06 August 2020
In brief: Import ban threatens to produce milk shortage in Panama
* Panama’s food security agency, Autoridad Panameña de Seguridad de Alimentos (Aupsa), has confirmed that it has banned 26 Costa Rican dairy producers from exporting products to Panama because they did not hand in the required documents on time to renew their permits. The ban includes cooperative Dos Pinos, which owns Panamanian dairy brand Productos Nevada. The general manager of Productos Nevada, Andrés Solís, has warned that “restricting the entry of dairy products from Costa Rica puts their supply [in Panama] at risk in times of a pandemic when access to food is vital”. Solís explained that Panama has a higher per capita consumption of dairy products in comparison to other Central American countries and its domestic milk production cannot satisfy demand with the country having to import 33% of its total milk consumption.
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