Outbreak of foot and mouth in Argentina

o-o-o-o-o-oooo... not good... not good at all...

As more countries yesterday closed their markets to Argentine beef, the National Food Safety regulator (SENASA) declared a state of sanitary emergency "in the entire national territory," following the detection on Wednesday of foot-and-mouth outbreak in San Luis del Palmar, in the northeastern province of Corrientes.

Israel, South Africa, Colombia, Peru and Albania suspended Argentine beef imports from the region of Corrientes yesterday, a day after neighbouring Brazil, Chile, Paraguay — and also Russia, Argentina’s largest market — had adopted similar measures. Uruguay has restricted imports and placed a strict control which included deployment of national security forces at four major crossings.

The head of the Argentine Rural Society (SRA), Luciano Miguens, who in recent weeks has challenged the government’s initiative to establish a price agreement with beef producers, yesterday said that the outbreak of foot-and-mouth in Corrientes will result in "significant losses for the country" due to exports cancellations, but he quipped that "the good news is that we will have cheaper beef."

Local beef producers yesterday called on the government to urgently pinpoint the cause of foot-and-mouth disease outbreak, fearing sharp new losses. Argentina is the world’s third largest beef exporter.

argentina is not in a very good position to absorb this kind of financial impact on one of its largest exports...

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