Report backs up beef findings, says IFA

THE latest European Union Food and Veterinary Office (FVO) report on Brazilian beef production confirms the findings of a recent IFA investigation, the farm body claimed yesterday.

According to the FVO report, most of the deficiencies found during its previous mission in 2003 have still not been rectified and many of the promised actions by the Brazilian authorities did not happen.

It referred to a lack of testing for residues of the many veterinary medicines unauthorised for use in food producing animals in the EU but freely available for use in Brazilian livestock production.