By Tatiana Freitas and Hallie Gu
Brazil, the world’s biggest beef exporter, is halting exports of the red meat to China starting Thursday after confirming a case of the animal illness known as mad cow disease.
The case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy was confirmed by Brazil’s Agriculture Ministry on Wednesday, and shipments to China were halted as part of a trade protocol between the two nations. Brazilian authorities will be holding conversations with Chinese counterparts in a bid for a “prompt re-establishment” of trade flows, the ministry said in a statement.
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