Brazil exports chicken items to Egypt in the wake of greenlight

São Paulo – Brazil exported 650 tonnes of processed poultry goods to Egypt year to date through August, in the wake of Obtaining the green light last year. Even though the shipment volumes are deemed positive and growth prospects are good, the Brazilian poultry industry argues for an extension of the 90-day shelf life to allow for increasing sales. Up to mid-2020, Brazil used to export only raw chicken to Egypt. “We almost exported exclusively whole chickens to Egypt,” Brazilian Animal Protein Association (ABPA) Markets Director Luis Rua told ANBA, stressing that Egypt has historically been a major market for the sector but in the raw whole chicken segment only. Whole small-sized chickens are largely consumed in the Arab countries. But Egypt gave the greenlight to imports of poultry-based products from Brazil in July 2020, including items such as nuggets, canned chicken meat, chicken sausages and chicken mortadella, as well as the higher value-added processed turkey product known ...