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Berlin / London / Paris / Warsaw / Vienna - In Europe, the epidemic pressure caused by bird flu is slowly increasing again. Outbreaks in poultry farms are being reported in more and more countries. According to the French Platform for Animal Health (ESA), Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) has currently been detected in 24 countries, most recently in Albania, Romania, Great Britain and Turkey.

Imports of French beef, which were halted in 2000 due to the outbreak of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, mad cow disease) in Europe, are expected to resume in earnest. The French Embassy in Korea held a press conference on the 4th and announced that it had resumed exports of French beef. For the event, 70 kg of French beef was imported for the first time in 24 years.

After historically high prices in 2021 and 2022, the average price of EU chicken meat fell in 2023, benefiting from lower feed costs, according to a recent US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Global Agricultural Information Network (GAIN) report. Initial data for the first six months of 2024 indicate that prices are again rising driven by strong domestic demand. Within the EU there are significant price differences between Member States. This is particularly true for broiler meat. On average, chicken prices in Germany are €1.5 per kilo ($0.68 per lb.) higher than in Poland. The average price differential with France is 0.7 € per kilo ($0.32 per lb.). This is why Polish chicken meat shipments to other EU Member States have increased significantly in recent years, to the point of even displacing inexpensive imported Brazilian chicken meat.