INCREASE OF 300 PERCENT EXPORT OF BOVINE MEAT TO JAPAN IN 2005
Mexico, 27 Sea (Notimex).- the exports of bovine meat from Mexico to Japan they grew 300 percents the year last with respect to 2004, thanks to the effort of the producers, the support of the government federal and to the observance of the quality controls and inocuidad.
Thus the president informed into the Mexican Association of Engordadores of Ganado Bovino (AMEG), Juan Barrio Aguirre, during Tasting of Cuts of Mexican Meat 2006, where it was demonstrated why Mexico is of the few countries that can sell meat to nations demanding like Japan.
As well, the holder of the Secretariat of Agriculture, Cattle ranch, Rural development, Fishes and Feeding (Sagarpa), Francisco Mayorga Castañeda grove, assured that Mexico is a country where the prestige of certificate Type of Inspection Federal (TIF) plays a role important.
That credibility, said, is conquering to other countries, where there are consumers who, like we, have confidence in seal TIF, "has confidence in the Mexican authorities, in which certificamos like innocuous product, as healthy product ".
Mayorga Castañeda grove added that at the moment the Japanese market it consumes eight thousand tons of Mexican meat that represents a value of almost 50 million dollars, while in 2004 they were only exported two thousand tons to that destiny.
It trusted that this year the consumption increases to 22 thousand tons, already that the Japanese government has recognized Mexico the efforts that do to safeguard the sanitary controls and he recommended that stimulate the export from meat to the Asian country.
In as much, Barrio Aguirre recognized the support of the Sagarpa, then it works with the producer and "it allows to promote with pride a meat that by generations it has contributed with quality and inocuidad in feeding of the Mexican town ".
Also, the holder of the AMEG indicated that Mexico is a country free of diseases like the one of the mad-cows, the foot and mouth, among others, and is of the few countries that can export meat to countries like Japan.
http://mx.news.yahoo.com/060327/7/1nqu5.html
Scientific Report of the European Food Safety Authority
on the Assessment of the Geographical BSE-Risk (GBR) of
MEXICO
Question N° EFSA-Q-2003-083
Adopted July 2004
SUMMARY OF SCIENTIFIC REPORT
The European Food Safety Authority and its Scientific Expert Working Group on the
Assessment of the Geographical Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) Risk (GBR)
were asked by the European Commission (EC) to provide an up-to-date scientific report on
the GBR in Mexico, i.e. the likelihood of the presence of one or more cattle being infected
with BSE, pre-clinically as well as clinically, in Mexico. This scientific report addresses the
GBR of Mexico as assessed in 2004 based on data covering the period 1980-2003.
The BSE agent was probably imported into Mexico and could have reached domestic cattle.
These cattle imported could have been rendered and therefore led to an internal challenge in
the mid to late 1990s. It is possible that imported meat and bone meal (MBM) into Mexico
reached domestic cattle and leads to an internal challenge around 1993.
It is likely that BSE infectivity entered processing at the time of imported 'at - risk' MBM
(1993) and at the time of slaughter of imported live 'at - risk' cattle (mid to late 1990s). The
high level of external challenge is maintained throughout the reference period, and the system
has not been made stable. Thus it is likely that BSE infectivity was recycled and propagated
from approximately 1993. The risk has since grown consistently due to a maintained internal
and external challenge and lack of a stable system.
EFSA concludes that the current geographical BSE risk (GBR) level is III, i.e. it is likely
but not confirmed that domestic cattle are (clinically or pre-clinically) infected with the BSEagent.
The GBR is likely to increase due to continued internal and external challenge, coupled
with a very unstable system.
http://www.efsa.eu.int/science/tse_assessments/gbr_assessments/565/sr04_biohaz02_mexico_report_summary_en1.pdf
Assessment
EFSA refers to the Working Group Report (annex) prepared by the EFSA Scientific Expert
Working Group on GBR for full details on the assessment.
External Challenge .......snip...end
FOR ONES THAT WANT THE FULL TEXT OF THIS AND SEE IMPORTS TO MEXICO SEE LAST PAGE HERE;
Mexico, Summary of the GBR-Assessment, July 2004 GBR Level : III**
EXTERNAL CHALLENGE STABILITY INTERACTION of EXTERNAL
CHALLENGE and STABILITY
1980-1990: Negligible
1991-1995: Very high
1996-2003: Extremely high
1980-2003: Very unstable
Live cattle imports MBM imports Feeding Rendering SRM-removal BSE surveillance
Any external challenge would have met the
very unstable system and infectivity would
have been recycled.
INTERNAL CHALLENGE
An internal challenge was highly unlikely up to
1990 but likely to be present and growing since
1993.
EXPECTED DEVELOPMENT OF THE
GBR
From UK:
None (CD* and other
sources of data)
From other BSE risk
countries:
3,194,014 (CD)
or
1,629,790 (other
sources of data).
*CD: country dossier
From UK:
None (CD and other
sources of data)
From other BSE risk
countries:
826,136 ton (CD)
or
919,144 ton (other
sources of data).
1980-2003:
Not OK
MBM was legally
included in cattle
feed until October
2000.
1980-2003:
Not OK
Process used is not
adequate for
reducing BSE.
1980-2003:
Reasonably OK
No SRM ban.
SRM is consumed
by humans and it
does not tend to
enter the feed
chain.
1980-2003:
Insufficient
1996 – 2003:
Passive and some
active
surveillance.
The GBR is likely to increase due to continued
internal and external challenge, coupled with a
very unstable system.
**GBR level is III: 'it is likely but not confirmed' that domestic cattle are (clinically or pre-clinically) infected with the BSE-agent.
http://www.efsa.eu.int/science/tse_assessments/gbr_assessments/565/sr04_biohaz02_mexico_report_v2_en1.pdf
TSS
Mexico, 27 Sea (Notimex).- the exports of bovine meat from Mexico to Japan they grew 300 percents the year last with respect to 2004, thanks to the effort of the producers, the support of the government federal and to the observance of the quality controls and inocuidad.
Thus the president informed into the Mexican Association of Engordadores of Ganado Bovino (AMEG), Juan Barrio Aguirre, during Tasting of Cuts of Mexican Meat 2006, where it was demonstrated why Mexico is of the few countries that can sell meat to nations demanding like Japan.
As well, the holder of the Secretariat of Agriculture, Cattle ranch, Rural development, Fishes and Feeding (Sagarpa), Francisco Mayorga Castañeda grove, assured that Mexico is a country where the prestige of certificate Type of Inspection Federal (TIF) plays a role important.
That credibility, said, is conquering to other countries, where there are consumers who, like we, have confidence in seal TIF, "has confidence in the Mexican authorities, in which certificamos like innocuous product, as healthy product ".
Mayorga Castañeda grove added that at the moment the Japanese market it consumes eight thousand tons of Mexican meat that represents a value of almost 50 million dollars, while in 2004 they were only exported two thousand tons to that destiny.
It trusted that this year the consumption increases to 22 thousand tons, already that the Japanese government has recognized Mexico the efforts that do to safeguard the sanitary controls and he recommended that stimulate the export from meat to the Asian country.
In as much, Barrio Aguirre recognized the support of the Sagarpa, then it works with the producer and "it allows to promote with pride a meat that by generations it has contributed with quality and inocuidad in feeding of the Mexican town ".
Also, the holder of the AMEG indicated that Mexico is a country free of diseases like the one of the mad-cows, the foot and mouth, among others, and is of the few countries that can export meat to countries like Japan.
http://mx.news.yahoo.com/060327/7/1nqu5.html
Scientific Report of the European Food Safety Authority
on the Assessment of the Geographical BSE-Risk (GBR) of
MEXICO
Question N° EFSA-Q-2003-083
Adopted July 2004
SUMMARY OF SCIENTIFIC REPORT
The European Food Safety Authority and its Scientific Expert Working Group on the
Assessment of the Geographical Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) Risk (GBR)
were asked by the European Commission (EC) to provide an up-to-date scientific report on
the GBR in Mexico, i.e. the likelihood of the presence of one or more cattle being infected
with BSE, pre-clinically as well as clinically, in Mexico. This scientific report addresses the
GBR of Mexico as assessed in 2004 based on data covering the period 1980-2003.
The BSE agent was probably imported into Mexico and could have reached domestic cattle.
These cattle imported could have been rendered and therefore led to an internal challenge in
the mid to late 1990s. It is possible that imported meat and bone meal (MBM) into Mexico
reached domestic cattle and leads to an internal challenge around 1993.
It is likely that BSE infectivity entered processing at the time of imported 'at - risk' MBM
(1993) and at the time of slaughter of imported live 'at - risk' cattle (mid to late 1990s). The
high level of external challenge is maintained throughout the reference period, and the system
has not been made stable. Thus it is likely that BSE infectivity was recycled and propagated
from approximately 1993. The risk has since grown consistently due to a maintained internal
and external challenge and lack of a stable system.
EFSA concludes that the current geographical BSE risk (GBR) level is III, i.e. it is likely
but not confirmed that domestic cattle are (clinically or pre-clinically) infected with the BSEagent.
The GBR is likely to increase due to continued internal and external challenge, coupled
with a very unstable system.
http://www.efsa.eu.int/science/tse_assessments/gbr_assessments/565/sr04_biohaz02_mexico_report_summary_en1.pdf
Assessment
EFSA refers to the Working Group Report (annex) prepared by the EFSA Scientific Expert
Working Group on GBR for full details on the assessment.
External Challenge .......snip...end
FOR ONES THAT WANT THE FULL TEXT OF THIS AND SEE IMPORTS TO MEXICO SEE LAST PAGE HERE;
Mexico, Summary of the GBR-Assessment, July 2004 GBR Level : III**
EXTERNAL CHALLENGE STABILITY INTERACTION of EXTERNAL
CHALLENGE and STABILITY
1980-1990: Negligible
1991-1995: Very high
1996-2003: Extremely high
1980-2003: Very unstable
Live cattle imports MBM imports Feeding Rendering SRM-removal BSE surveillance
Any external challenge would have met the
very unstable system and infectivity would
have been recycled.
INTERNAL CHALLENGE
An internal challenge was highly unlikely up to
1990 but likely to be present and growing since
1993.
EXPECTED DEVELOPMENT OF THE
GBR
From UK:
None (CD* and other
sources of data)
From other BSE risk
countries:
3,194,014 (CD)
or
1,629,790 (other
sources of data).
*CD: country dossier
From UK:
None (CD and other
sources of data)
From other BSE risk
countries:
826,136 ton (CD)
or
919,144 ton (other
sources of data).
1980-2003:
Not OK
MBM was legally
included in cattle
feed until October
2000.
1980-2003:
Not OK
Process used is not
adequate for
reducing BSE.
1980-2003:
Reasonably OK
No SRM ban.
SRM is consumed
by humans and it
does not tend to
enter the feed
chain.
1980-2003:
Insufficient
1996 – 2003:
Passive and some
active
surveillance.
The GBR is likely to increase due to continued
internal and external challenge, coupled with a
very unstable system.
**GBR level is III: 'it is likely but not confirmed' that domestic cattle are (clinically or pre-clinically) infected with the BSE-agent.
http://www.efsa.eu.int/science/tse_assessments/gbr_assessments/565/sr04_biohaz02_mexico_report_v2_en1.pdf
TSS
