Argentina: With multiple analyses and an inviolable seal, the quality of the peanuts is certified for export to Europe

Published 2024년 6월 1일

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The province of Córdoba in Argentina is a major exporter of agricultural products, particularly peanuts, which account for 70% of Europe's consumption. The region around General Cabrera and General Deheza has developed a productive hub with a high GDP per capita, thanks to its exporting profile. Nicolás Sandrini, the certification manager at JLA, a chemical engineering company in Gral. Cabrera, explained the company's role in ensuring the quality and health of these exports, with a focus on meeting Europe's stringent aflatoxin requirements. JLA conducts tests for aflatoxins and other quality parameters to ensure that the final product meets both European standards and the requirements of the purchasing firm. This process is crucial to prevent the market from being put at risk and to maintain Argentina's reputation for exporting high-quality peanuts.

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The province of Córdoba is one of Argentina's export powers, competing for the podium alongside Buenos Aires and Santa Fe. Manufacturing of agricultural origin is its strong point, and peanuts, so in demand in the world, are one of its flagships. The peanut industry carefully developed a productive hub in the surroundings of General Cabrera and General Deheza, which places this region as one of the most thriving and with the highest GDP per capita, thanks to its clearly exporting profile. In fact, 70% of the peanuts consumed in Europe are planted and harvested in this productive enclave. It is not simple: it is a very demanding market given the quality and health requirements. One of the key links in this logistical-productive-industrial framework is that of shipments so that the product reaches the old continent just as it left a plant in Córdoba, and can be used by the European industry in its snacks or chocolates. Once the Córdoba plant has the product ready to ship, it has to ...

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