Argentine exports of poultry meat bound for the European Union (EU) will resume as of this Wednesday, after they were suspended since last February due to the detection of an outbreak of Influenza Highly Pathogenic Avian (HPAI), reported this afternoon the Foreign Ministry.
Argentina managed to get the EU to reopen its market for poultry meat after the joint work carried out by the Foreign Ministry, the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, and the National Service of Health and Food Quality (Senasa).
Reopening of exports to the European Union
From the moment of detection, Argentina adopted a series of measures to recover the status of HPAI-free country that allowed controlling the disease and its spread, recalled the Foreign Ministry in a statement.
These measures included a stamping-out policy, cleaning and disinfection actions in affected establishments, and a surveillance program to demonstrate the absence of infection.
Thanks to the joint work of the Argentine authorities and the poultry production sector, it was possible to close all HPAI outbreaks in poultry present in the national territory.
After the HPAI free country declaration was obtained on August 7 and communicated to the European Commission, as a result of the efforts made by the Argentine Embassy before the EU, together with the Agricultural Attaché Office, The EU decision, published today, was obtained in a short time through regulation (EU) 2023/1664, which allows poultry meat and poultry products from Argentina to re-enter the European market.
This decision will allow Argentine producers to recover a market that in 2022 amounted to 7.8 million euros in exports, and meant an increase of 100% compared to 2021.
Reopening of the Brazilian market
Meanwhile, in the framework of his lightning visit to Brazil, the Minister of Economy, Sergio Massa, announced together with his counterpart from that country, Fernando Haddad, the normalization of poultry exports to the neighboring nation.
As in the case of the European Union, the Brazilian market had been closed as a result of the bird flu outbreak detected in Argentina.
Source: Ambito
