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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8269
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/brazil

Brazil not sufficiently equipped to deal with swine diseases and uses veterinary medicines banned in EU

Brussels, 02/08/2002 (Agence Europe) - The Food and Veterinary Office (FVO) is particularly critical of the public and animal health controls carried out by the Brazilian authorities regarding the production of pigmeat. The FVO report on the mission carried out in March in Brazil, which was published on Wednesday evening, shows that "many deficiencies were found at the Federal reference laboratory and at the State laboratory dealing with swine diseases". It is also highly critical of the...

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