Mexico and Belize seek to expand health protocol for safe importation of certified cattle

The relationship with Belize is a priority, so the technical and scientific institutions of Agriculture will maintain permanent support with their Central American counterparts. With the objective of expanding the safe introduction to Mexico of cattle for immediate slaughter and terminal fattening, originating from Belize, and thereby strengthening the supply of raw materials for the national industry, the ministries of Agriculture of both countries are working on a mechanism of sanitary control that guarantees the absence of pests and diseases of quarantine importance. An import protocol is currently in force, through which Mexico receives around five thousand animals per year certified by the Central American health authority, coming only from Orange Walk County. It is intended that with the update of the mechanism the import protocol considers a greater number of certified producers from Belize, who must demonstrate with clinical tests the absence of bovine tuberculosis (Tb), ...