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Agricultural products allowed into Brazil only after these comply with phyto-sanitary requirements
Feb. 14, 2017
The Secretariat of Agricultural Defense of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply (SDA /Mapa) has refuted claims, made on the basis of an alleged study, that if imported coffee beans were to be released by the federal government, these may have the potential to destroy Brazilian coffee plantations.
Currently, raw coffee beans can be imported after fulfilling requirements to mitigate any possible phyto-sanitary risks as required by international producers, the Brazilian agricultural monitoring department and by national importers.
These requirements are on account of detailed pest risk analysis (ARP) studies, conducted in accordance with international standards, approved and established in the form of the Agreement on Sanitary and Phyto-sanitary Measures of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the International Convention For Plant Protection of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (CIPV/FAO/UN), to which Brazil is a signatory.
In Brazil, the ARPs are conducted by the Federal Agricultural Auditors of MAPA who are specifically trained for it.
In ARP studies, the probabilities of entry, establishment and dissemination of any pests present in the countries from where the plant products are originating and for which the phyto-sanitary risks upon import into Brazil are being analyzed, are assessed to prevent any risk of a consignment being affected.
These probabilities are combined with the potential for undesirable economic consequences that such pests could pose to the Brazilian agriculture. Through such combination of studies, experts determine the risk that a pest can pose.
All imports of raw coffee beans authorized by MAPA or in the process of authorization have previously been processed by the ARP study described above.
The products are only allowed into Brazil after these comply with the phyto-sanitary requirements established by the ARP.
In case of non-compliance with such requirements or quarantine pest interception, the cargo is destroyed or rejected, and import from that source may be suspended and the phyto-sanitary requirements reviewed.
Therefore, all imports of raw coffee beans (and other plant products) authorized in Brazil after ARP studies, which are as per the parameters recommended by the SPS/WTO agreement and by the CIPV/FAO/UN treaty, are safe for the country's agriculture.
In view of the above, imported coffee does not represent any phyto-sanitary threat to coffee producing states in Brazil.
Finally, the Agricultural Defense Secretariat has warned against anyone making claims of phyto-sanitary threat without proper technical support or without observing the official methods of pest risk analysis. Consequently, such claims will be considered not having any credibility, irresponsible and highly detrimental to Brazil's plant health system as these inadvertently call into question a process recognized and respected internationally, thanks to the highly technical and scientific methods followed and the transparency involved.
Source: AgroNews
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