EU BANS BRAZILIAN BEEF OVER FMD FEARS
January 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is to ban all Brazilian beef imports following concerns about Brazil's handling of its latest foot-and-mouth disease outbreak. The European Commission had not wanted a blanket ban and instead offered Brazil a jointly-agreed list of FMD-safe producers, exporting to Europe. However, Brussels and Brasilia could not settle on identifying disease-free producers, with the Commission questioning whether producers proposed by Brazil had no FMD. Brussels said: "We have received a very large number of holdings proposed by ...
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