According to a body representing the meat sector, the measure was already envisaged and aims to ‘de-bureaucratise’ monitoring actions and possible mitigations
OR Minister of Agriculture Ordinance 587 was published this Monday 22, in an extraordinary number of the Official Gazette, in which a state of animal health emergency is declared throughout the national territory for 180 days. The measure occurs due to the detection of cases of infection by the bird flu Highly pathogenic H5N1 (HPAI) in wild birds in Brazil.
In the document, the Minister of Agriculture, Charles Favarowhich extends indefinitely the validity of ordinance 572, of 29 March 2023, which establishes preventive measures throughout the national territory against the entry and spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza.
So far, cases of the disease have only been detected in wild birds, but not in commercial flocks.
The Brazilian Association of Animal Proteins (ABPA) released a statement in which it stated that the measure was already “planned and widely discussed by the ministry with the productive sector”.
For ABPA, the purpose of the ordinance is to “de-bureaucratize processes to acquire greater agility in monitoring actions and possible needs for mitigation actions”.
The body that represents the poultry and pork production and export sector also underlines that it is a “anticipatory” measure, which seeks to accelerate action responses through the integration of the ministry with state agencies and the unblocking of resources, among other things”. .
For the ABPA, the decision “strengthens the transparency and strategic leadership role of the Ministry of Agriculture in this process which, until now, has been limited to monitoring occurrences in wild birds in the national territory”, it says, and completes : “There are no changes in Brazil’s disease-free status before the World Organization for Animal Health (WHOA), precisely because there is no registration of the disease in commercial production.”
Source: Terra
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