EU restores Brazilian poultry imports after avian flu outbreak closed the market

Published on 24/09/2025 - 10:04 GMT+2

The EU has lifted a halt connected poultry imports from Brazil 4 months aft they were stopped due to the fact that of an avian flu outbreak.  

The European Commission has begun gradually lifting the impermanent restrictions connected imports of poultry products from Brazil, an EU enforcement spokesperson confirmed to Euronews connected Tuesday.  

“Providing the epidemiological presumption remains stable, the 2nd step, arsenic from the 2 October, volition beryllium the lifting of restrictions connected the authorities of Rio Grande bash Sul (except the 10 km radius astir the outbreak which volition beryllium yet re-opened by 16th October),” the spokesperson added.  

Brazil has not reported immoderate caller outbreaks since mid-May 2025, erstwhile it notified the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) that it had suspended its presumption arsenic ‘free of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI)’ pursuing the detection of vertebrate flu connected a commercialized workplace successful Montenegro, Rio Grande bash Sul. 

Without this status, Brazilian authorities were incapable to contented the carnal wellness certificates required for exports to the EU. 

The suspension automatically rendered imports of poultry and poultry products from immoderate portion of Brazil ineligible nether EU rules, which necessitate countries to support an HPAI-free presumption successful bid to export poultry – meaning the EU did not request to enforce a circumstantial prohibition connected Brazilian poultry. 

Although the EU is not Brazil’s largest poultry marketplace (only astir 4.4% of Brazilian poultry exports were sent to the bloc past year), the Latin American state remains a cardinal supplier, accounting for 32% of EU poultry imports successful 2024, according to authoritative data.