August 19, 2025

Brazil's BRF sees poultry export resumption to China, Europe 

China and Europe are expected to resume purchasing chicken products from Brazil within days or weeks.

This comes after local authorities successfully managed a bird flu outbreak that had caused trade bans in the second quarter, according to Brazilian food processor BRF SA on August 15.

Brazil's first bird flu case at a chicken breeder farm last May sparked a number of trade restrictions that importers gradually lifted as the world's largest poultry exporter controlled the outbreak.

The government declared Brazil free of the highly contagious disease in June.

In a conference call on BRF's quarterly results, management said food inventories had risen above desirable levels due to the export restrictions, a situation BRF aims to resolve in the short term.

"As those two markets reopen we will return to inventory levels more closer to zero," CEO Miguel Gularte told an analyst on the call. "It is our philosophy not to keep inventories without sales."

BRF described China and Europe as "extremely important" markets. On August 14, management had welcomed a decision by Saudi Arabia and Chile to resume purchases, citing official government disclosures.

-      Reuters