Análise de importação de bovinos vivos no Brasil entre 2009 a 2015

Abstract

Brazil is an important country for the production and commercialization of cattle in the world. All imports of animals and products of animal origin involve some risk to the importing country, represented by one or more diseases or infections; to ensure the safe importation of animals, countries need to define health measures in accordance with their rights and duties. In view of this, the Brazilian imports of live cattle during the period of 2009 to 2015, according to the protocol of the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), were analyzed in order to identify potential risks in internalized goods. For this purpose, data on the type, volume and origin of imports, incidence rates and risk classification for BSE, Foot-and-mouth disease, Brucellosis and Tuberculosis were used, from the exporting countries made available by the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade and the OIE. During the study period, 49,846 live cattle were imported from the following countries: Argentina and Uruguay. This scenario was evaluated by qualitative and quantitative methods where it was concluded that: imported goods, despite the potential identified, represented a low risk of introduction of agents in the national territory.