EC PRESSURES BRAZIL OVER MEAT HEALTH EFFORTS
October 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) health Commissioner Markos Kyprianou has visited Brazil to pressure the Brazilian government into tightening its veterinary medicine residue and foot-and-mouth disease controls. Problems in both areas have led to restrictions on Brazilian meat sales to EU. Kyprianou met with Brazil's foreign and agriculture minister to press for further action. Brussels is refusing to approve Brazilian residue standards for pig, sheep and goat meat, adding another hurdle to the sale of products already banned in the EU over different health ...
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