Brazil exports chicken items to Egypt in the wake of greenlight

Frozen Whole Chicken

Brazil

Egypt

Published Sep 18, 2021

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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.

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“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 as blanquet in Brazil . But the country determines a short shelf life for most of these products, thus making it hard to export, the Brazilian goods remain for 30 to 40 days in Egypt-bound ships. “We have a major trouble in exporting thermally processed goods that are their shelf life in Egypt, which is very short, only 90 days. Therefore, for products such as sausages or nuggets this makes it very difficult for ...

Source: Anba