Brazil extended sanitary parameters for hake imports

The Directorate of the Department of Inspection of Products of Animal Origin (DIPOA) of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply of Brazil (MAPA) announced, this Thursday, a new administrative measure through which certain sanitary requirements are extended on the Presence of parasites in frozen hake products from exports of Argentine fishing companies. Through Circular No. 23 of 2022 and with the signature of the director of the Department of Inspection of Products of Animal Origin, Ana Lúcia de Paula Viana, the "reinspection of imported fish" was communicated, indicating that there has been into consideration "the technical discussions that have taken place between the official inspection agencies of Brazil and Argentina", and Circular No. 15/22 is replaced by which Brazil "flexibilizes" for 60 days the entry of Argentine hake, which is made known in the framework of the trade mission that Argentine officials and businessmen carried out last April in Brasilia and São ...