Business Maverick: Brazil suspends beef exports to China after mad cow case

The case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy was confirmed by Brazil’s Agriculture Ministry on Wednesday, and shipments to China were halted as part of a trade protocol between the nations. Brazilian authorities will be holding conversations with Chinese counterparts in a bid for a “prompt re-establishment” of trade flows, the ministry said in aThe export suspension is a blow to some of the world’s major meatpackers, including JBS SA, Marfrig Global Foods and Minerva SA.

Samples of the infected animal were sent to a lab in Alberta, Canada, to determine if the case is “atypical”. The atypical variety differs from “classical” BSE linked to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in people. An atypical case also generally means the animal contracted the disease spontaneously, not through contaminated meat-and-bone meal.

The ban on shipments to China is only expected to last a short time if the case is atypical, said Pan Chenjun, a senior analyst at Rabobank. Still, there’ll be a significant impact in the meantime because Brazil is such a large supplier. Other South American exporters may benefit as they have similar products.

The mad cow case was detected in a nine-year old cow in Maraba, Para state. The animal, which was fed on grass only, was culled and its carcass incinerated on the farm. The last atypical mad cow case in Brazil happened in 2021, when China took three months to lift an export ban. Based on the outlook for tight global beef supplies and the Chinese economy growing more than in 2022, it is possible the ban will be shorter compared with 2021, according to Hyberville Neto, director at HN Agro consultancy.

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