Mexico: Meat producers warn of dangerous overregulation for livestock transportation

Hello, as a consequence of the new measures adopted, following the declaration of a national animal health emergency, this has generated an unprecedented overregulation that is directly affecting the meat supply chain in the country. The multiplication of federal and state checkpoints has caused substantial increases in the transit times of cattle moving from the southern states to fattening centers in the north. AMEG groups together producers of intensive cattle corrals and the meat industry in Mexico, and it is made up of more than 350 associates, with a presence in 14 federal entities of the country. The transit times from the holding corral at origin to the fattening corral at destination have increased by up to 12 hours, from 20 hours to 32 hours currently, as well as waits of over 18 hours at inspection points to comply with the times following the application of antiparasitics. Additional state checkpoints, which double inspections already carried out at the federal level, ...