Mexico renewed the sanitary authorization of some 20 Uruguayan dairy plants to import their products, after 22 refrigerators were enabled in recent days for the sale of matured bovine and ovine boneless meat to that territory.
The Mexican health authorities approved on September 4 a two-year extension of health certificates until December 2025.
In addition to the go-ahead for the aforementioned refrigeration plants, this year Uruguay completed a process for the entry of rapeseed into the Latin American country.
The concretions were highlighted from the Ministry of Livestock, Agriculture and Fisheries (MGAP), where the joint work with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MRREE) and the embassy of Uruguay in Mexico to overcome “non-tariff barriers”.
Uruguay will export meat to Mexico after three years
The MGAP reported that Uruguay may export meat to Mexico after three years from the authorization of a total of 22 national refrigerators by the health authorities of the northern country.
“Always opening markets is good news in general and in particular for this moment in the meat sector,” said the MGAP undersecretary, Juan Ignacio Buffa.
For Buffa,”the Mexican market has always been relevant for meat production in the Uruguay“, and stressed that exports will resume “after an intense period of negotiation and work, which included audits in refrigerators.”
Specifically, an on-site inspection was carried out at the Uruguayan official veterinary service and at the applicant refrigerators, which took place in May by the National Service of Health, Safety and Food Quality (Senasica).
From now on, the authorization will be carried out with a verification of the merchandise in the ports of destination, unlike what had been done previously, where verification was required by Mexican inspectors installed in our country. “There are well-founded expectations that a relevant commercial flow will be reestablished,” the chief valued.
Source: Ambito
