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LatinNews Daily - 22 May 2025
In brief: Brazil’s bird flu outbreak met with more import restrictions
*Brazil’s agriculture ministry has published a list of the countries or blocs which have suspended or restricted imports of Brazilian poultry due to concerns about bird flu. A total of 21 countries or blocs have suspended all Brazilian poultry imports: China, the European Union (EU), Mexico, Iraq, South Korea, Chile, South Africa, the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), Peru, Canada, the Dominican Republic, Uruguay, Malaysia, Argentina, East Timor, Morocco, Bolivia, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, the Philippines, and Jordan. A further nine countries have suspended poultry imports from Rio Grande do Sul state: the UK, Bahrain, Cuba, Macedonia, Montenegro, Kazakhstan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Tajikistan, and Ukraine. Meanwhile, Japan and Saudi Arabia have suspended poultry imports from the municipality of Montenegro in Rio Grande do Sul. On 16 May Brazil’s ministry for agriculture and farming (Mapa) confirmed the country’s first outbreak of bird flu in a commercial farm, prompting the suspension of poultry exports to several countries.
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