Brazil: Pre-listing agreement will boost poultry and pork exports to the Philippines

New good news shook the protein market this Tuesday, with the announcement made today by the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock of the recognition, by the Philippines, of system equivalence and establishment of pre-listing for animal proteins from Brazil. Exporters in the sector celebrated the news that should positively influence the flow of chicken and pork exports this year, according to the Brazilian Animal Protein Association (ABPA). The system accreditation and pre-listing establishment agreement authorizes all companies qualified by the Federal Inspection System to apply for the accreditation process to export their products to the Philippine market. The technical missions of the Asian country's authorities will now be focused on validating the system, not the plants. Previously, qualification was carried out individually, with documentary analysis by the Asian country's authorities. In total, 23 chicken meat exporting plants and 4 pork exporting units were qualified to ...