Ministry of Agriculture sends inspectors to Paraguay due to reports of foot and mouth disease

In order to head off the spread of foot and mouth disease from
Paraguay into Brazil, the Ministry Agriculture (“Ministério da
Agricultura, Pecuária e Abastecimento – Mapa”) has sent two federal
inspectors to check five meatpacking plants in the departamentos
(states) of Assunção and Concepción that are certified to export meat to
Brazil. The inspectors are expected to remain there for eight days and
verify that all requirements for export are being fulfilled. Brazil has
limited its imports of beef from Paraguay to only two types since last
September when there was another outbreak of foot and mouth disease,
that is, aged and boneless beef (“carne maturada e desossada”).

Along with the Brazilian inspectors, another inspection mission from Mercosur will be in Paraguay between January 15 and 21.