Source: FOOD SAFETY NEWS, 4/26/18


The European Union is punishing Brazil for alleged deficiencies in the country’s control system by banning imports from 12 BRF S.A. poultry plants. Brazil is the world’s second-largest poultry producer, and its Agriculture Minister Blairo Maggi promises to take the EU to the World Trade Organization’s (WTO’s) Dispute Settlement Body. He says the EU is lying when the organization says its ban on Brazilian poultry is based on health or sanitation issues.

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