House Lawmakers Ban Brazil, Argentina Beef Imports in Agriculture Appropriations Bill
The House passed agriculture appropriations legislation for Fiscal Year 2016 on July 8, and the bill includes an amendment (here) to ban Brazilian and Argentine beef imports until the Agriculture Department makes further evaluations of the risk of foot and…
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mouth disease. The legislation would force Agriculture to conduct a “comprehensive risk evaluation that includes quantitative risk assessment of importing beef produced in Argentina and Brazil.” The bill would also require additional Agriculture visits to slaughtering and processing facilities in both countries. The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service amended its regulations in recent days to pave the way for those imports (see 1507010024). The new regulations apply to the Brazilian states of Bahia, Distrito Federal, Espírito Santo, Goiás, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Minas Gerais, Paraná, Rio Grande do Sul, Rio de Janeiro, Rondônia, São Paulo, Sergipe, and Tocantins, as well as the Argentine region north of Patagonia South and Patagonia North B.