The system of health controls put in place by Brazil provides sufficient guarantees that products likely to be exported to the EU meet most of the requirements applicable to imports, with the exception of surveillance for highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), which may not be sufficient to detect the disease as early as possible, according to an audit by the European Commission's Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety (DG SANCO) published on 9 November.
This audit...