The slaughterhouses that export horse meat to Europe admit that it is difficult for them to identify only the horses that are going to slaughter and

This Tuesday, Senasa decided to postpone for later, a year from now, for July 1, 2025, the requirement that horses whose meat will be exported to the European Union must be individually identified with a microchip at least 180 days before of the task. The decision showed the difficulty of implementing this traceability system required by the health authorities of the old continent. The task of identifying the horses was handed over by the organization some time ago to the exporting companies themselves so as not to lose that market. This chipping task, carried out by UNICA, the business chamber of the meat processing industry that brings together the four plants dedicated to horse meat in the country, turned out to be more complex than it seemed. And this would be due to the particularities of the business, since the horses that are sent to the slaughterhouse (about 100 thousand each year) are generally collected from the fields by traditional “gatherers” in that business. For ...