Within the framework of the plenary meeting in which the vice president of the National Animal Health and Quality Service (Senasa), Rodolfo Acerbi, participated in Mexico City, a bilateral meeting took place with the head of the Barbados veterinary service, Mark Trotman , where it was agreed to send Argentine beef to that Caribbean country.
On that occasion, Trotman advanced the acceptance of the export sanitary certificate model proposed by Senasa, and in this way it was agreed to open the market for matured, boneless bovine meat and Argentine by-products to this market.
Besides, That country accepted that Senasa is the one that authorizes the refrigerators that will be authorized to trade their products and that it sends the list of establishments that can export to Barbados.
Negotiations with Barbados began at the Caribbean Community (Caricom) level in 2007, according to the Secretariat’s report.
“Given the impossibility of meeting its requirements for a country free of foot-and-mouth disease and after several years of bilateral sanitary negotiations between Senasa and the Barbadian authorities, it was finally possible for this country to make its regulations more flexible, accepting the sanitary conditions of the Argentine meat”, indicated Agriculture.
The Caribbean Community is made up of Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago.
Meanwhile, in the case of Costa Rica, the National Animal Health Service of that country reported through an official note signed by the director of Animal Quarantine, Byron Gurdián García, the acceptance of the International Veterinary Certificate (CVI) model for Argentine exports. of bovine semen, opportunely proposed by Senasa.
The two Argentine genetic establishments authorized to start exports are Munar Asociados and Ciavt, which in 2022 complied with responding to an evaluation form required by the Costa Rican veterinary service.
Source: Ambito
