The European Union will suspend imports of Brazilian meat and other animal products from Thursday, pending assurances from Brazil that it is complying with the bloc’s animal health rules.<\/p>\n
The European Commission has said Brazil has failed to provide sufficient guarantees that its exports meet EU standards aimed at preventing the misuse of antibiotics in livestock farming.<\/p>\n
“Brazil will no longer be authorised to export to the Union food-producing animals and products of animal origin intended for human consumption,” a Commission spokeswoman told AFP.<\/p>\n
This will affect commodities like poultry, meat, eggs, honey and casing.<\/p>\n
Brussels declined to provide a timeline for when imports might resume.<\/p>\n
In May, Brazil was put on an EU list of countries that do not keep to rules on the use of antibiotics in animals.<\/p>\n
An audit of Brazil’s poultry and honey sectors is due to conclude on Friday.<\/p>\n
If the findings are positive and EU member states give approval, Brazilian poultry exports to the bloc could resume within weeks.<\/p>\n
Beef imports may take longer.<\/p>\n
EU under pressure over Mercosur deal<\/p>\n
The commission said the timeline would depend on how quickly Brazil can demonstrate compliance with EU requirements.<\/p>\n
“Brazil is an important partner for the EU and we are working closely, constructively and positively with Brazilian authorities to ensure their compliance with these requirements,” the spokeswoman said.<\/p>\n
“Once compliance is demonstrated, exports to the EU will be able to resume.”<\/p>\n
The EU is keen to show its vigilance after facing strong criticism from farmers and from France following its signing in January 2026 of a free trade agreement with South America’s Mercosur group of countries – Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay.<\/p>\n
Brazil was the EU’s second-largest supplier of beef in 2025, exporting more than 92,000 tonnes worth over \u20ac713 million.<\/p>\n
The bloc bans the use of antimicrobials to promote growth in livestock and restricts the use of antibiotics reserved for human medicine, as part of efforts to curb antimicrobial resistance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The European Union will suspend imports of Brazilian meat and other animal products from Thursday, pending assurances from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-610899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}