The Asian giant will carry out an audit this week and the next to see if they enable the product and the establishments.
China will begin this week and will continue next week with audits in two Uruguayan plants with the aim of analyzing whether the Asian giant would import Tripe.
The audits will have format virtual and they will take place starting this Thursday and next week. “China gave us the first signs and requested two audits,” anticipated the director of International Affairs of the Ministry of Livestock, Agriculture and Fisheries, Adriana Lupinacci.
After the audits and subsequently the analysis of the Chinese government where additional information may be requested or some observation is made, if approved, it will go through the records system, then through the Ministry of Livestock, Agriculture and Fisheries (MGAP) and then, finally, make the authorization effective to start exporting.
According to him National Meat Institute (INAC), the authorization of tripe for export would guarantee Uruguay an increase of 40 million dollars in its meat chain. This means triple the income currently received from exports of meat products.
It should be remembered that during the president’s visit Luis Lacalle Pou to China last year in the month of November, Uruguay received approval for products such as frozen liver, kidneys and tripe. This room became official, later, with the publication by the China General Administration of Customs (GACC) that made it immediately effective.
Equine qualification
During the presidential visit to China The new protocols for the export of sports horses, which contains the quarantine and health requirements for the placement of these horses, a sector has growth potential in Uruguay and today it represents an income of between 1 and 2 million dollars annually.
For its part, an audit was also carried out in the month of December by the General Administration of Customs of China, which enabled the registration of the CLAY refrigerator in the CIFER system to export horse meat to that country from that date.
The export of meat equine to China generated expectations in the sector and the president of the Society of Pure Race Horse Breeders (SCCPC), Victor Tarigo, He told Valor Added that “the interest arose from China itself, which for some time had been looking at the health issues of Uruguay”.
Source: Ambito
