The government of China would finally formalize next October the health protocol agreed upon with Senasa to enable the direct trade of bovine offal from Argentina. These by-products of the slaughter have been entering the Asian country for years—where they are highly accepted—through a triangulation via Hong Kong, which causes many dollars to be lost in the intermediary chain.
According to sources close to the negotiations between both countries, and after much delay, by the end of next October China will confirm the protocol for bovine offal, which would open up direct, albeit limited, commercialization only to Cycle 1 slaughterhouses. This could leave out of the business companies such as Offal and Madeka, which are important players in the offal business but do not have their own slaughter operations.