Announcement
08 Dec 2012
In December 2012, the government of Japan announced an alteration to its export prohibitions.
Source
Japan, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries:
http://www.maff.go.jp/j/press/syouan/douei/121208.html
Brazil, Ministry of Agriculture: http://www.agricultura.gov.br/comunicacao/noticias/2012/12/descartada-mo...
OIE, countries classification list: http://www.oie.int/en/animal-health-in-the-world/official-disease-status...
Brazil, Ministry of Agriculture: http://www.agricultura.gov.br/comunicacao/noticias/2012/12/descartada-mo...
OIE, countries classification list: http://www.oie.int/en/animal-health-in-the-world/official-disease-status...
Number of interventions
1
1 certainly harmful
0 likely harmful
0 liberalising
List of interventions
Implementation date
08 Dec 2012
Revocation date:
No revocation date
Announced: 08 Dec 2012
Import ban In force
On 8 December 2012, the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries decided to ban imports of beef from Brazil because of a case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BCE) in Brazilian cattle.
The World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) ran tests on a 13-years-old female cow that died in the state of Parana in December 2010 and did not confirm the disease. What the OIE found is instead the presence of a protein, currently believed to cause the disease, but the animal died for oth...
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