*Brazil’s agriculture ministry has announced that 17 countries have lifted their full or partial suspensions on shipments of poultry from Brazil. In May Brazil confirmed one case of avian influenza (bird flu) in a commercial farm in the municipality of Montenegro, Rio Grande do Sul state, prompting dozens of countries to impose suspensions or restrictions on imports. Last week Brazil notified the World Organization for Animal Health (Woah) that the country was free of bird flu, having gone 28 days without any new cases in commercial farms. As of yesterday, Algeria, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Egypt, El Salvador, Iraq, Japan, Lesotho, Libya, Morocco, Myanmar, Montenegro, Paraguay, the Dominican Republic, Sri Lanka, Vanuatu, and Vietnam had lifted the restrictions they imposed last month. Currently the European Union (EU) and 14 countries still have a total ban on Brazilian poultry; 19 countries are maintaining their suspension on poultry shipments from the state of Rio Grande do Sul; while three countries are still banning poultry just from Montenegro municipality. Brazil’s largest trade partner, China, is among the 14 countries that have not lifted their total ban on poultry shipments from Brazil.
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