"the exigencies more are elevated", said Cané

It indicated that Argentina must adapt to the new requirements

President of the National Service of Health and Nourishing Calidad (Senasa), Bernardo Cané, left to the crossing of the speculations in winch of his management and expressed that the incapacitation of the plants responded to the new exigencies of European Unio'n (UE) and to "a change in the game rules". The following thing is part of an interview granted to the Nation:

- Existed discretion in the decision to exclude some plants?

- If discretion to the intentionality is understood to favor to one or to another one, decidedly no. It has changed the scene with the visit of the UE in November of the last year, in which Argentina was suggested must review its system to it of approval of plants and make an individual audit of each one; it remembered, in addition, that the Senasa must be able to deslistar in time and form when it considers that a plant does not observe the rules. Those were the three axes thus dictated resolution 1/03 of sanitary hygienic control, operation and management of the companies with an audit component after the visit of OLAF (Antifraude Office of the European Community). It had not less than 10 meetings with the administered ones and in December a each company with the situation report and the faults was given in hand on a, previously to the audit. Nobody objected the norm.

- Why in less of a year since it recovered the market of the UE qualified the double of plants authorized in a beginning?

- the exigencies of the UE were not so manifest. The negotiation with previous Europe to the reapertura excluding was centralized in health animal. All the discussion was focused in health animal and there were no observations. But the first call of very serious attention was the visit in November of the Sanco, that made a serious warning in the aspect of inspection of refrigerators. In answer a norm was dictated and they were put because the audit had been very strong and the indication, very precise.

- the norms ISO and Hazard are excluding to export?

- One yes, other no. The Hazard subject is a universal exigency. The visit of the European Union in November was not classically of veterinarians, but auditors in a position to evaluate from the stock in cameras to the program of rat control and notebooks of public health of the personnel.

It was so the amount of documentation of data and elements that they asked for that it took us to a conclusion. If we obtained that the industry gradually adopts these systems would be a great advance. He is not excluding, but it is a mechanism that gives to an ordering a systematization and a transparency him to the system.

In addition, the company is responsible from the point of view of which it produces in his establishment. The Senasa is the one that gives the rules, the one that audita supervises and, but the primary responsibility is always of the company. It is mixed, sometimes, the primary responsibility and the coadyugante. Let us think that if in the companies norms of quality of automatic control are credited he would be safer and is transparent.

- If in a course it is postponed most of the students, is not a failure of the Senasa?

- the problem is that in this examination they had to change the game rules, because the exigency level particularly more is elevated than the previous ones.

- It considers that the system of control of the Senasa is adapted?

- the world-wide tendency is the development of the Hazard and the transference of the most explicit responsibility to the automatic control of the companies. That makes the U.S.A. and Europe. The company must guarantee that he is able to give satisfaction to his client, to the sanitary service and its surroundings. Resolution one is not capricious and the administered ones know it.

- Existed political pressures to give reverse gear with the norm?

- pressure political, if it is possible to be defined as so, was information of UE and the U.S.A. in which they say that without we did not fulfill we are outside the market. That is clearer the political pressure with a technical component. We are not autojustificando the pressure, but the level of exigency of the UE is elevated.

- There is desmanejo or corruption in the Senasa?

- They are two different things. If the handling has to do with the management and the capacity to obtain results to the facts I send: the campaign of aftosa, the reapertura of markets. Respect to the other subject, when one is in this position is tried to limit the action with this type of things.

- It thought about resigning after these events?

- We are customary to have enemy powerful. But we have cohesion and synchronism in our form to work with Miguel Fields, Roberto Lavagna, Aníbal and Alberto Fernandez. I only received from them support to continue working in rigorous form.