Saudi Arabia resumes beef imports from Brazil

The government of Saudi Arabia decided to end the embargo on Brazilian beef imports last Thursday (16). The information was released by the Saudi Food and Drug Authority (SFDA), the Saudi government agency that regulates food and medicine in the country, and confirmed by the Ministry of Agriculture. Saudi Arabia had suspended purchases of beef from five Brazilian slaughterhouses after the notification of atypical cases of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), known as mad cow disease. of September. The motivation was related to the occurrence of a case of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) in the state”, informed the Ministry of Agriculture in a statement. North (MT) and Belo Horizonte (MG). These were atypical cases – when the cause is a mutation in a single animal, and not through contamination between two or more cattle. Even so, the Brazilian government decided to temporarily suspend beef exports to China, ...