After the health authority of the European Union announces the embargo on the exports of poultry meat from 20 Brazilian slaughterhouses, the Brazilian Animal Protein Association (ABPA) said it regretted the decision announced yesterday (19).
“The association regards as unfounded the decision taken by the European states as a protectionist measure that does not rely on health or public health risks. The decision taken yesterday [by the European Community] is disproportionate and inconsistent with the rules laid down in the World Trade Organization (WTO) Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Agreement, “ABPA said in a statement.
Also in the statement, ABPA stressed that it will question in the WTO the criteria for shipments of salted products (with only 1.2% of added salt), which are obliged to comply with the analysis criteria for more than 2,600 types of products. Salmonella. To give you an idea, the product strictly in natura (without salt added) weigh only analyzes for two types of Salmonella.
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