Brazil’s government and exporters of meat, poultry, eggs, honey and other animal products were scrambling Thursday after a European Union deadline passed for suspending imports over concerns about the use of antibiotics and antimicrobial drugs in livestock.
A more elaborated article is by the EU Observer, it says,
… The list of countries that are not currently compliant with the EU rules was** originally agreed in May** …
The spokesperson added that the commission had received guarantees that Brazil’s poultry industry was compliant but that “we need them for all animal products” and this was “not the case for beef at the moment" …
Around half of all beef imports to the EU come from Mercosur nations. For its part, Brazil was the EU’s second-largest supplier of beef in 2025, exporting more than 92,000 tonnes worth over €713m.
A more elaborated article is by the EU Observer, it says,
It seems Brazil is failing here, not the EU.