Argentina regained the british poultry meat market

• The recognition of the United Kingdom is very important for Argentina, because it represents a fundamental precedent to manage the reopening of the markets of China and Chile, which are the largest customers of the argentine poultry exporting sector.
• In 2023, until the market was closed in April due to the HPAI outbreak, Senasa certified the export of 272 tons of poultry products to Great Britain.
• The loss of key markets, due to the suspensions caused by the avian influenza outbreaks, generated a significant drop in Argentine poultry meat exports, which in 2023 were 160,585 tons product weight, versus 227,247 tons in 2022.
• The decrease in export volume was also reflected in foreign currency, since due to the sanitary crisis, they had to place merchandise in destinations of lower value and accepting even lower prices than the usual ones for Argentine white meat.

In view of the culmination of the sanitary actions in the last outbreak of HPAI in poultry (commercial circuit), SENASA submitted to OMSA a detailed document with all the sanitary actions carried out since the beginning of the outbreak, which supports and sustains Argentina’s current status as a country free of the disease.

Conclusions

• It is worth mentioning that the sanitary emergency is still in force, through epidemiological surveillance and prevention tasks throughout Argentina.
• It is important to remember that Avian Influenza is a notifiable disease in Argentina according to SENASA Resolution 153/2021.
• Any person can notify the Agency if he/she identifies mortality, nervous, digestive and/or respiratory signs in wild birds or poultry, through SENASA channels.