Chile re-enables the importation of meat products from Argentine Patagonia after revalidating the sanitary status.

The Chilean Agricultural and Livestock Service (SAG), a public body that manages animal health policy in the country, announced that it will reinstate the importation of meat and animals from Argentine Patagonia after having suspended this possibility on July 30th. Following the decision by the Senasa to allow the entry of bone-in meat from the northern side of the sanitary barrier, considered as an "area free of foot-and-mouth disease with vaccination," Chilean authorities proceeded, as a preventive measure, to change the sanitary category of Patagonia. Subsequently, in September, an audit by the SAG conducted in Argentine territory validated the process of restoring the sanitary recognition of the foot-and-mouth disease-free area without vaccination in Patagonia. The decision will be made official next week in the Official Journal of Chile, after which Argentine Patagonian slaughterhouses will be able to resume meat exports to the neighboring country. "From Confederaciones ...