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Market notes on global animal-protein trade

Raphael Carmo · Managing Partner, 4D World

FMD-Free Without Vaccination: Brazil's Offal Opening

Key Takeaways ▸ On June 8, 2026, China recognized all of Brazil as FMD-free without vaccination. ▸ Rio Grande do Sul (8 plants) and Mato Grosso (1) joined Santa Catarina (7) — 16 authorized plants. ▸ ...

Brazil China Rendering Trade Policy

Aug 12, 2026

Raphael Carmo · Managing Partner, 4D World

Europe is pouring half a billion into wet pet food

Key Takeaways Nestle Purina committed CHF 520 million to a wet pet food plant in Mantova, Italy on 20 July 2026. Vafo Group took 12 hectares in Slupsk, Poland for a EUR 14 million pouch line, live by ...

Europe Innovation Pet Food Sustainability

Aug 11, 2026

Raphael Carmo · Managing Partner, 4D World

America is keeping its heifers. Brazil ships the difference.

Market Pulse Monday 10 August 2026 Key Takeaways USDA counted 28.5 million US beef cows on 1 July 2026 the smallest July figure on record. The 2026 calf crop, 32.5 million head, is the ninth consecuti...

Food Prices & Markets Rendering United States

Aug 10, 2026

Raphael Carmo · Managing Partner, 4D World

FOB, CFR or CIF? Who owns the cargo once it’s on board

INSIDE THE INDUSTRY Every frozen container leaving Brazil sails under three letters — and those letters decide who pays the freight, who buys the insurance and whose problem it is if the voyage goes w...

Food Logistics & Shipping Trade Policy

Aug 8, 2026

Raphael Carmo · Managing Partner, 4D World

SIAVS 2026: three days inside Brazil’s biggest animal-protein fair

INSIDE 4D WORLD SIAVS 2026 FIELD REPORT Brazil’s entire animal-protein industry spent three days under one roof in São Paulo — and 4D World’s desk walked every aisle of it. Here is what the record-bre...

Brazil Fairs & Events Food Internal News Nutre Meat

Aug 7, 2026

Raphael Carmo · Managing Partner, 4D World

Phoenix claws: how chicken feet became a billion-dollar off-cut

INGREDIENT SPOTLIGHT N 8 Every broiler carries two of them. In most of the world they are worth less than the box they ship in. In China they are called phoenix claws, they outsell breast meat per kil...

Brazil China Food Prices & Markets

Aug 6, 2026

Raphael Carmo · Managing Partner, 4D World

The September 3 clock: Brazil, the EU and the antimicrobial file

TRADE & REGULATION On 3 September 2026 Brazil is due to drop off the European Union's list of authorised exporters of animal products not over a disease, not over a residue scandal, but over paperwork...

Brazil Europe Regulation Trade Policy

Aug 5, 2026

Raphael Carmo · Managing Partner, 4D World

Spain's €2.18 billion pet food year belongs to cats

EUROPE PET FOOD WATCH N 13 Spain just posted a 2.18 billion pet food year and almost every euro of the growth came from one animal. Dog food barely moved. Cats did the work. Key Takeaways ▸ Spain's pe...

Europe Pet Food Prices & Markets

Aug 4, 2026

Raphael Carmo · Managing Partner, 4D World

July 2026 scoreboard: beef pays China's quota toll, chicken flies

MARKET PULSE · Nº 13 July's books are closing, and the tape tells a split story: Brazil's beef machine finally slowed under the weight of China's exhausted quota — while chicken and pork sprinted hard...

Brazil China Food Prices & Markets

Aug 3, 2026

Raphael Carmo · Managing Partner, 4D World

Three months, one lesson: the year protein learned to diversify

Key Takeaways ▸ Brazil booked record H1 exports: beef US$9.85bn and chicken US$5.7bn. ▸ The FAO Meat Price Index hit a record 131.0 in June 2026. ▸ The US cattle herd fell to 86.2 million head, the sm...

Brazil Food Prices & Markets Trade Policy

Aug 2, 2026

Raphael Carmo · Managing Partner, 4D World

Reforma tributária: what changes for exporters on August 3

Key Takeaways ▸ From August 3, 2026, NF-e invoices lacking new IBS/CBS fields are auto-rejected. ▸ Brazil's tax reform replaces old taxes with the federal CBS and sub-national IBS. ▸ 2026 transition r...

Brazil Regulation Trade Policy

Aug 1, 2026

Raphael Carmo · Managing Partner, 4D World

Freeze-dried & fabulous: how removing water conquered the treat aisle

Key Takeaways ▸ Freeze-drying, or lyophilization, removes water by sublimation under vacuum. ▸ Frozen ice turns directly into vapour, skipping the liquid stage entirely. ▸ It preserves nutrients, arom...

Innovation Pet Food

Jul 31, 2026

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