The National Agrifood Health and Quality Service (Senasa) received through an official note the notification of the opening of the Barbados market for the export of bovine meat and bovine genetics to Costa Rica.
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As for Barbados, in the framework of the plenary meeting in which the vice president of Senasa, Rodolfo Acerbi, participated in Mexico City, where he held a bilateral meeting with the head of the Barbados veterinary service, Mark Trotman, it was agreed to send of Argentine beef to that Caribbean country.
Trotman advanced the acceptance of the export health certificate model, opportunely proposed by Senasa, thus opening the market for matured, boneless bovine meat and Argentine by-products to this market.
Likewise, the veterinary service of that country sent the official note to Senasa that enables the opening of exports.
The head of the Veterinary Service of this country also accepted that Senasa be the one to authorize the refrigerators that will be authorized to trade their products, and to send the list of establishments that can export to Barbados.
Negotiations with Barbados began at the Caribbean Community (Caricom) level in 2007, and given the impossibility of meeting its requirements for a country free of foot-and-mouth disease and after several years of bilateral sanitary negotiations between Senasa and the Barbadian authorities, it was finally possible for this country to make its regulations more flexible, accepting the sanitary conditions of Argentine meat.
The Caribbean Community is an international organization for the strengthening of relations in the region.
It is made up of the Member States of Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago.
It should be noted that Senasa certifies products of vegetable origin such as refined soybean oil, soybean oil and vegetable oil that are currently sent to this Caribbean destination.
For its part, the National Animal Health Service of Costa Rica informed through an official note signed by the director of Animal Quarantine, Byron Gurdián GarcÃa, the acceptance of the International Veterinary Certificate (CVI) model for the export of bovine semen from Argentina, opportunely proposed by Senasa.
In said communication, the two Argentine genetic establishments authorized to start exports were detailed: MUNAR ASOCIADOS and CIAVT, which during the year 2022 complied with responding to an evaluation form required by the Costa Rican veterinary service.
It should be noted that as a prerequisite for agreeing on a sanitary certificate for bovine semen, Senasa also complied with answering a documentary evaluation questionnaire during the past year.
With regard to bovine embryos, the current sanitary requirements were received by Senasa of Costa Rica for consideration by the organism of Argentina. ■