Farmers across the EU back IFA on beef imports issue

EUROPEAN farmers this week united behind IFA’s efforts to have Brazilian beef imports banned in the EU.

However, EU Commissioner for Public Health and Food Safety, Markos Kyprianou rebutted IFA findings and responded in detail to 34 points made by IFA in its report of alleged food safety breaches in Brazil.

The IFA’s findings on the Brazilian beef industry are not new, and are misleading, according to the Commission. But the COPA group of EU farmers’ organisations, and the COGECA grouping of agricultural co-ops backed IFA, by calling for tighter controls of such imports into the EU.