The EU recognizes Brazil's status as free of avian influenza, says Fávaro

The Minister of Agriculture, Carlos Fávaro, announced that the European Union (EU) has recognized Brazil's status as free of avian influenza. "We received excellent news: the European Union has recognized Brazil as free of avian influenza, which will allow the resumption of Brazilian chicken meat exports to Europe," said Fávaro in a video on social media. The European recognition of Brazil's resumed sanitary status, already formalized by the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), was informed by the European Commission's Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, Olivér Várhelyi, in a video conference meeting, this Thursday (4), with Fávaro and the Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture, André de Paula. Brazilian chicken exports to the European Union have been suspended since May 16, when a case of avian influenza was registered in a commercial flock in Montenegro, Rio Grande do Sul. After controlling the outbreak and with no new cases emerging, Brazil regained its status as ...