The European Union (EU) has deemed Brazil’s official sanitary controls for poultry and honey production "satisfactory," a decisive technical step toward reopening a vital market that was suspended just days ago over regulatory concerns about antibiotic use. The positive evaluation followed an on-site audit by European inspectors that concluded on September 4, according to Brazil’s Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (Mapa). This technical clearance is the final hurdle before Brazil is reinstated on the EU’s list of authorized suppliers for these products, a bureaucratic process Mapa expects to complete “very quickly.”