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Animal-source food legislation as a tool for the exclusion of smallholder farmers in Brazil

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Over the last 70 years in Brazil, the sanitary inspection of animal-source food (ASF) has been used as groundwork to impose trade barriers on smallholder farmers and small-scale producers. The adoption of exclusive ASF legislation has propagated an informal sector in which food safety is not guaranteed, structural inequalities are kept and regional development is impaired.

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Fig. 1: Proposition for creating a new regulation framework for ASF based on production scale.

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  1. Center of Natural Sciences, Federal University of São Carlos, Buri, SP, Brazil

    Naaman Francisco Nogueira Silva

  2. Department of Law, Federal University of Viçosa, Viçosa, MG, Brazil

    Davi Augusto Santana de Lelis

  3. Department of Food Technology, Federal University of Viçosa, Viçosa, MG, Brazil

    Antônio Fernandes de Carvalho

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N.F.N.S. and D.A.S.d.L. conceived, designed and wrote the paper. A.F.d.C. substantially revised the manuscript and helped in the interpretation of the data and legislation.

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Nogueira Silva, N.F., de Lelis, D.A.S. & de Carvalho, A.F. Animal-source food legislation as a tool for the exclusion of smallholder farmers in Brazil. Nat Food 3, 237–240 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-022-00490-2

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