LatinNews Daily - 22 July 2024

*Brazil’s agriculture ministry has announced restrictions on exports of chicken meat and egg products after one case of Newcastle disease was confirmed among commercial poultry. The virus was detected on a farm in Anta Gorda, a municipality in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul. Restrictions will be applied to poultry products from farms within a 50km radius of the affected farm and will last for at least 21 days. The latest decision will impact exports to 44 countries. For some export destinations, such as China, Argentina, and Mexico, the export ban will be imposed on chicken farms nationwide, not only on poultry from Rio Grande do Sul. According to a government press release, Rio Grande do Sul is Brazil’s third-largest chicken exporter state, registering 354,000 tonnes of exports in the first half of 2024, accounting for 14% of the country’s total poultry product exports. According to national media reports, this marks the first confirmed case of the virus in Brazil since 2006.