Japanese technical mission opens market opportunity for Brazilian beef.

Last weekend, Japan sent a mission to the Southern region of Brazil to assess the sanitary system and determine a possible opening of the Asian country's market to Brazilian beef. The Japanese technicians will have meetings scheduled until next Monday (13). Despite government requests to expand the area evaluated by the agents, the audit will only be in Paraná, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul, the first states to obtain the certificate of being free of foot-and-mouth disease without vaccination. The on-site audit is considered a decisive step in the sanitary validation process. After the technicians' analysis, the procedure for authorizing shipments to the country is only documentary. Japan imports around 700,000 tons of the protein per year, with the United States and Australia leading among exporters, with business close to US$ 4 billion annually.

This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.