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Mexico’s National Sanitation and Food Quality Service (Senasica) and General Quality, Inspection and Quarantining Supervision Administration (Aqsiq) have signed agreements establishing protocols for the exportation of Mexican beef to China.
A Food Production Secretariat (Sagarpa) press release on Sunday said that the secretariat is carrying out actions to “drive the competitiveness and productivity of the Mexican primary sector,” and that the requirements are being met to make sure Mexican beef enters this important Asian market.
Aqsiq and Chinese technicians carried out a series of audits from Nov. 29 to Dec. 6 on Mexican veterinary services, as part of what the press release called “the process to advance the opening of the Mexican beef export market.”
The Chinese group, headed by the Anhui Province Chinese Inspection and Quarantining Service (CIQ) Director Jiangzong Liang, visited the Senasica laboratories and National Animal Health Verification and Diagnostics Services centers (Cenapa and Cenasa), as well as places where animal feed is produced.
This news comes as part of Mexico’s bid to increase trade with China. Sagarpa announced in November that Mexico would shortly begin to export strawberries, blackberries and cranberries to China.
China is increasing its food importation, a sign of its growing food insecurity problem. Pollution and a growing population has led China to search outside the country for food sources. Mexico is just part of the nation’s global strategy to ensure a food supply for its population. China has acquired over 3.5 million hectares of prime farmland in foreign countries over the past few years.
Mexico is in a position to take advantage of this supply and demand dynamic, but also has a domestic consumption problem. Almost 80 percent of Mexico’s food is imported.
Although Sagarpa recently announced that agricultural exports will decelerate this year, the promotion of agricultural products is still expanding into other markets such as China.
Sagarpa officials are currently waiting for Chinese officials to release an official report on their findings.
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