Pedro Miguel da Costa e Silva, Brazil’s ambassador to the EU, told Euronews that the EU’s September ban on Brazilian beef imports was “a surprise” and that Brasilia had worked with the European Commission to undo the decision.
Da Costa e Silva’s remarks were made the day after a group of national experts from the EU decided to forbid the importation of Brazilian beef due to the usage of antibiotics to promote animal growth.
The decision was made only a few days after the EU and Mercosur countries, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Argentina, provisionally signed into a free-trade deal to liberalize trade in agricultural products. We were surprised by the outcome yesterday,” da Costa e Silva told Euronews. The first nation to be removed from the list of countries adhering to EU antimicrobial food safety regulations was Brazil.
Da Costa e Silva continued, “We have started a technical dialogue with the Commission to reverse Brazil’s exclusion from the list,” adding that his team had met with the health Directorate General of the European Commission to “obtain explanations” behind the ruling.
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