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EU bans Brazilian beef

MoGal

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Just doing a quick search, seems to me that "industrialized beef" is beef in the feedlot......

Don't worry our packers will just ship EU's Brazilian meat here to the US and further reduce the US farmer's prices..... if people aren't interested enough to contact their congressional leaders then our beef industry will continue to decline.
 

PORKER

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In Brazil, Anger Over European Ban of Beef Imports
By ANDREW DOWNIE
Published: February 5, 2008
SÃO PAULO, Brazil — A decision by the European Union to ban Brazilian beef imports is “unjustifiable and arbitrary” and could result in shortages and higher prices for European consumers, officials and agricultural specialists say.

Concerned that the meat could pose health risks, the Europeans banned all Brazilian beef imports last week. European nations are still alert to fears over mad cow disease and foot-and-mouth disease, and contend that Brazil, the world’s largest beef exporter, does not have adequate health and traceability systems in place from field to fork.

Brazilian ranchers denied that and proposed that imports be allowed from 2,600 holdings where they said procedures were adequate. The Europeans rejected that compromise and imposed a blanket ban. A delegation is to visit Brazil later this month to further review Brazilian practices.

The restrictions were the latest in a long-running dispute between the European Union and Brazil and evoked predictable anger from Brazilian producers.

The head of the Brazilian Association of Meat Exporters called the measures “abusive sanitary protectionism” and said that herders in Europe simply wanted to eliminate Brazilian competition.

Around 90 percent of Brazilian beef cattle graze freely and that, combined with advanced technology used to raise and fatten cattle, means each that kilogram of Brazilian beef — 2.2 pounds — costs less than $1 to produce. That is almost half the cost in Australia and the United States and a third of the cost in Ireland, the Brazilian association said.
 

PORKER

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The head of the Brazilian Association of Meat Exporters called the measures “abusive sanitary protectionism” and said that herders in Europe simply wanted to eliminate Brazilian competition.

Guess they don't know what the word " Traceability " MEANS.
 

PORKER

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Cloud of mistrust over new Brazil list
By Maeve Dineen
Tuesday February 26 2008


The Brazilian authorities have submitted a new list of beef farms for inspection to the EU Commission. A list of less than 200 holdings was sent to the Commission on Friday. Each farm named on the list was accompanied by the respective inspection reports. The European Commission said it is examining the file and intends to carry out a Commission inspection in Brazil to verify that all EU requirements are being met in the proposed holdings. Inspections of the 200 farms were due to start yesterday.


IFA President Padraig Walshe said the latest reports must be treated with the highest degree of suspicion by Commissioner Kyprianou. He said Commissioner Kyprianou must hold firm against the Brazilians and maintain the current ban.

Mr Walshe said the Brazilians have proven themselves to be totally unreliable and have repeatedly failed to meet previous commitments to correct a long list of failures on meeting EU standards.

"Only last week in the Brazilian senate the Agriculture Minister Reinhold Stephanes severely criticised Brazilian beef exporters and admitted they had exported untraceable animals to the EU. During the session in the senate, Minister Stephanes criticised certification in Brazil saying the situation was 'scandalous'," he said.
The IFA President added that the Brazilian beef exporters association ABIEC also admitted the major deficiencies with standards in Brazil.

"A number of weeks back Brazil submitted a list of 2,500 farms in direct contravention of the Commission's decision of January 2007. When this list was thrown out by the EU, it is understood they submitted another list of around 600 beef ranches more than a week ago, which was also reported as being rejected by the Commission," he said.

Ireland East MEP Mairead McGuinness called on the Commission to ensure that the Brazilian farms on the list meet all of the criteria that applies within the EU, including traceability, animal identification, audit programmes and other controls.

"It is regrettable that the report of the Food and Veterinary Office (FVO) of November last has still not been made available to members of the European Parliament or the wider public. What we do know is what the inspectors saw in November resulted in the current ban. It is critical that we have full sight of that report," she said.

The MEP also called on the Commission to ensure that the findings from the inspections, due to be carried out from this week, be made public.

- Maeve Dineen
 

PORKER

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Brazilian beef exports hit Hard
News - FG | 28 March, 2008

NEW evidence has emerged that the Brazilian beef industry is being hit hard by the tough restrictions on its exports to Europe.

It is also struggling to secure approval from EU Food and Veterinary Office officials for its farms, confirming major problems with record keeping and traceability.

According to trade publications in Brazil, loss of access to the European market has cost the industry $US300million since the end of January.

To date just 87 farms out of a list of 106 have been approved to supply export abattoirs. This is a far cry from the 10,000 thought to be supplying cattle to export abattoirs before the restrictions of traceability recordkeeping came into force.

The Brazilian industry says that to have a realistic commercial export trade it would need 3,000 large feedlot type farms approved for export. This is a distant prospect, and little progress on increasing the number of farms is expected before June at the earliest.

This suggests that Brazil will be out of the European market for a considerable time, helping maintain recent gains in beef prices as food service companies were forced to turn to new suppliers.

Even when Brazil returns it is unlikely to be the aggressive price discounter it was, as the higher standards it is facing have added costs, while the industry has millions of dollars of losses to recoup from the market is views as its prime outlet for higher quality beef cuts.

Not having TRACEBACK has shut down EXPORTS from Brazil to the EU.
 

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