The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (Mapa) in Brazil revised the certification for exports of poultry meat and its products, after confirming an outbreak of Newcastle disease (NCD) in a commercial poultry production enterprise in the municipality of Anta Gorda, in Rio Grande do Sul, this Friday, July 19.
The restriction varies by market, but affects sales in 44 countries.
Export certification is a bilateral agreement between partner countries and therefore, the ministry preemptively modified the International Health Certificate (CSI) in order to fulfill the agreed guarantees and requirements.
"In accordance with the international rules for the trade of poultry and their products, the suspension of the temporary certification is carried out by Brazil, to guarantee the transparency of the Brazilian official service to the countries that import the products. In this way, the suspensions are related to the area or region with a certification barrier, ranging from suspension for at least 21 days for the entire national territory or even restriction limited to a radius of 50 kilometers (km) from the identified focus". explained the file.
Suspension
According to the government, for countries such as China, Argentina, Peru and Mexico, the suspension applies to all of Brazil, for now. In this case, the restricted products are poultry meat, fresh poultry meat and its derivatives, eggs, meat for animal feed, poultry raw material for optical purposes, meat preparations and untreated blood products.
From the state of Rio Grande do Sul, exports to South Africa, Albania, Saudi Arabia, Bolivia, Kazakhstan, Chile, Cuba, Egypt, Philippines, Georgia, Hong Kong, India, Jordan, Kosovo, Macedonia, Myanmar, Montenegro are limited. Paraguay, French Polynesia, United Kingdom, Dominican Republic, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Taiwan, Ukraine, European Union, Eurasian Economic Union, Uruguay, Vanuatu and Vietnam.
Among the products are fresh, chilled or frozen poultry; eggs and egg products; meat, meat products; poultry, pig and ruminant meal; heads and feet; poultry fat; cooked, baked and salted sausages; processed and thermo-processed meat products; and raw materials and products for animal feed.
Within a radius of 50 km from the explosion, poultry meat, poultry meal, feathers and fish for use in animal feed and cooked, heat-processed inedible meat products derived from poultry may not be exported to Canada, South Korea, Israel, Japan, Morocco. , Mauritius, Namibia, Pakistan, Tajikistan, East Timor. Certificates for these destinations with production dates up to July 8 do not fall within the restrictions and can be issued, the ministry said.
Also according to Mapa's statement, products that undergo heat treatment such as heat-treated, cooked and processed products destined for Argentina, South Africa, Chile, the European Union and Uruguay have no restrictions and can normally be certified .
The ministry informed that "the suspension rules are reviewed every day, taking into account the ongoing negotiations with the partner countries, which present all the actions being carried out to eradicate the outbreak".
Export
Rio Grande do Sul is the third largest exporter of chicken meat in Brazil, after Paraná and Santa Catarina. In the first 6 months of the year, the state has sold 354 thousand tons abroad, generating an income of 630 million dollars. These exports represented 13.82% of the $4.55 billion generated by the country and 14.1% of the 2.52 million tons exported by Brazil in the same period.
In the first half of the year, the main destinations for chicken meat from Rio Grande do Sul were the United Arab Emirates (48 thousand tons/94 million USD), Saudi Arabia (39 thousand tons/77 million USD), China (32 thousand tons /52 million US dollars) and Japan (20 thousand tons/43 million US dollars), reports sociedadonline..com.
Newcastle disease (ND) is an infection of poultry and other avian species with the virulent Newcastle disease virus (NDV). Newcastle disease is not a food safety or public health concern. Virulent NDV is capable of producing a devastating disease in poultry, with major social and economic consequences.
It is a worldwide problem that mainly presents as an acute respiratory disease; however, depression, nervous signs, or diarrhea may be the predominant clinical form.
The severity of ND depends on the virulence and genetic type of the infecting virus and the susceptibility of the host.
There is no treatment for Newcastle disease, and in many countries, infected birds in the vicinity of an outbreak are culled to prevent transmission of the disease.
Prevention is achieved through vaccination and strict biosecurity. Real-time RT-PCR is the test of choice to detect viral RNA typical of virulent NDV and to confirm infection in birds with clinical signs of disease.
The appearance of the disease in poultry is notifiable and may result in trade restrictions./ Alert