Sequels of a past with little credibility

Funes olive supported the action of the Senasa

The president of the Argentine Beef Consortium (ABC), Carlos Funes Olive, understands that after the sprout again of aftosa in the added Argentina and episodes of that disease to the cases of "badly of the crazy cow" in Europe, the rules of the game for the exports of fresh meats to the Old Continent and the United States they changed "because the greater exigencies became every time".

In an interview with the Nation, the industralist defended the management of the National Service of Health and Agro-alimentary Quality (Senasa) and misestimated all possibility of "discretionary" attitude in the incapacitation of 17 refrigerators to export cuts of the Hilton quota. In addition, he rejected the idea that one is scoring at a concentration of the quota in less hands.

About the procedure that left of the Hilton business several actors outside, Funes Olive explained that "to those plants that were asking for their entrance it warned to them with 24 hours of anticipation and in which already they had rating, the audits were of surprise".

The industralist is convinced that "from now on, we are going to have every time greater exigencies to be able to export to the countries of the European Union and to the United States".

- It thinks that what it happened with the aftosa in Argentina had to do with this decision?

- Yes, if '… This has to do with the lack of credibility that was then created with respect to the Senasa to not to have presented immediately the problem the aftosa and with which happened in Europe. From it the exigencies of them are greater.

- it consists to Him that discretion in the decision of the Senasa could have existed?

- No. It does not consist to me. We do not not only know the plants that have been deslistadas. We do not know the reasons either.

- Good, they it does not seem either that…

- That I cannot be said. What I have listened from the point of view of the Senasa is that they have presented them inspection each one.

- Sometimes the plants that now are deslistadas of blow by a resolution had to be qualified. Think that it passed something in the system, that was no attendance, or are the rules of the game?

- I believe that the rules of the game changed totally and this the Senasa presented it. To Argentina they changed the game rules to him when the problem came from the aftosa, when we did not fulfill and when we were not credible outside. And, good, I believe that at the moment the Senasa as institution must be very firm front to all this, because if no, which we put here in risk are not the 17 plants that were disqualified or the 11 that entered, but the country altogether.

- Now they are 17 plants, that have people working and are some are good… It can be that in two months they deteriorate so much as to be disqualified?

- I believe that it is difficult. What yes we must consider is that there were two plants that have been deslistadas not by the Senasa, but by the European organism and not by a edilicio problem, but by a problem of papers. That is to say, there was no a trazabilidad as it corresponds and this is most important to be able to export.

- one says Much that this moved of the Senasa was for leaving in less hands the Hilton quota.

- I believe that she is not going away to concentrate. Why one is going away to concentrate in less hands when there are 50 and so many plants? The other way around. Nobody is going to have an exaggerated high quota.