The bird flu, lethal disease for poultry production, since it generates productive losses, although it does not affect the consumption of its products by the population, it has its own crack: two chambers are confronted by a possible vaccination and seek to convince with their arguments, in favor and against, the Minister of Economy, Sergio Massa. According to Senasa, so far there are 88 detections of the disease in the country.
On the one hand, in favor of vaccination, is the Argentine Chamber of Poultry Producers (Capia), that groups egg producers. of the other is the Center for Poultry Processing Companies (CEPA), where are the companies that produce meat and other by-products.
“The Argentine Chamber of Poultry Producers (Capia) requested the national authorities to implement a plan to vaccinate the entire avian population in the country and allow, with this measure, to safeguard a health emergency situation that is putting the sector in a crisis. of egg production due to the animal and economic losses it generates. Pursuant to that request, the State committed today [por el viernes pasado] to initiate the legal path to have vaccines registered in the country and evaluate their eventual use, following in all cases sanitary criteria that will be specifically established by the application authority,” said that organization.
After a meeting that took place last Friday with authorities from the Ministry of Agriculture and Senasa, Capia also reported: “At the meeting on the day of the date [por el viernes pasado]the authorities promised that the State will convene through Senasa all the laboratories that globally produce vaccines that combat some of the avian influenza viruses, so that they begin the procedures that would allow the approval of these products in Argentina. and the immunization record is completed. He added: “Once this process is completed, a vaccine bank will be planned, which will be authorized by Senasa, and which will in turn be the administrator of its eventual use.” He also pointed out that “it was agreed that if it were necessary to authorize the use of one of the approved vaccines, Senasa will set the authorization parameters and criteria for eventual application.”
For Javier Prida, president of Capia, the vaccine is “the solution” to the current situation. “At Capia we understand that healthily the vaccine is the solution to the problem we are facing. We are aware that the implementation of vaccination would cause damage to another sector, due to its possible impact on the closure of markets for exports of fresh products, and also to the State due to loss of foreign currency. But from Capia we understand that vaccination in the current scenario of the sector, with permanent losses and great uncertainty, would make it possible to prioritize the food of Argentines and not only the exportable agenda of the country ”, he pointed out.
For his part, Cepa responded by disseminating the letter he sent to Massa. There he noted: “We write to you attentive to the note sent by the Capia colleague chamber that informs us without prior consultation or agreement regarding the urgent implementation of a vaccination program against avian influenza. In this regard we want to emphasize that in the future the vaccine would be the possibility of controlling and even eradicating the avian influenza virus. However, for the moment (20 years of research) none of the vaccines that are in development have shown successful results with their application, but some improvements in mortality and in partly containing the productive results, but maintaining viral activity and requiring revaccination. permanent”.
Cepa stressed: “The countries that are mentioned as approved to vaccinate or with vaccination in use, are countries that do not export, but are mostly producers and importers. No exporting country uses, for now, vaccination, be it the USA, the EU countries, Brazil (still free), Chile, etc.
Roberto Domenech, president of Cepa and who signed the letter, highlighted in it: “Argentina is an exporter of chicken meat, poultry by-products, flour and fertile eggs for incubation. The sum of exports exceeded 500 million dollars in 2022, placing us in 14th place as an export agro-industrial item”.
Instead of doing the vaccination at this time, this chamber proposed “deepen care, define a methodology and allocate a fund to the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock to compensate producers for slaughtered birds and wait for the next debates within the framework of OMSA [Organización Mundial de la Sanidad Animal] where the Avian Influenza chapter will be discussed”.
In this context, Domenech referred to the situation in the sector. “There is no risk of lacking eggs or chicken for the normal supply of consumption, the batches affected so far are approximately the equivalent of 1,400,000 animals out of a current and active population of 160,000,000 million birds.”
2023-05-01 00:46:00
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