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Mexico closes doors to the American chicken, Arkansas
Written by Teresa Neves
Monday, 30 June 2008
Yesterday, almost a month after the detection of an outbreak of Avian influenza caused by the H7N3 strain in the farm state of Arkansas, the Ministry of Agriculture of Mexico announced a temporary ban on poultry products of Arkansas. It is the fourth country to adopt this procedure, with one major difference that Japan, Russia and Taiwan said the ban immediately after the disclosure of the incident, in early June this.
Although the effects are not known about the extent of U.S. exports of chicken meat, just given that as a part of the Arkansas is the second largest producer of U.S. chickens, on the other side of Mexico arises, nowadays , As the third largest importer of U.S. beef and chicken.
Between January and April this year the North American poultry exports to Mexico just over 87 thousand tonnes of chicken meat, the equivalent to 9% of the total exported in the quarter. In the first and second place is with Russia and China, respectively, 29.5% and 13% of the total.
It is estimated that the embargo on Mexican Arkansas extends for the next 60 days. It includes, in addition to chicken meat (fresh, frozen or cool in the latter case, produced in Arkansas from May 9 past), also on live birds, eggs and fertile eggs of duck.
http://avicultura.com.pt/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=537&Itemid=0
Written by Teresa Neves
Monday, 30 June 2008
Yesterday, almost a month after the detection of an outbreak of Avian influenza caused by the H7N3 strain in the farm state of Arkansas, the Ministry of Agriculture of Mexico announced a temporary ban on poultry products of Arkansas. It is the fourth country to adopt this procedure, with one major difference that Japan, Russia and Taiwan said the ban immediately after the disclosure of the incident, in early June this.
Although the effects are not known about the extent of U.S. exports of chicken meat, just given that as a part of the Arkansas is the second largest producer of U.S. chickens, on the other side of Mexico arises, nowadays , As the third largest importer of U.S. beef and chicken.
Between January and April this year the North American poultry exports to Mexico just over 87 thousand tonnes of chicken meat, the equivalent to 9% of the total exported in the quarter. In the first and second place is with Russia and China, respectively, 29.5% and 13% of the total.
It is estimated that the embargo on Mexican Arkansas extends for the next 60 days. It includes, in addition to chicken meat (fresh, frozen or cool in the latter case, produced in Arkansas from May 9 past), also on live birds, eggs and fertile eggs of duck.
http://avicultura.com.pt/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=537&Itemid=0
