Cooxupe to reject coffee with inferior quality, mycotoxins or humidity damage
Brazil’s top coffee co-operative Cooxupe said it will reject beans that fail “inferior quality standards,” including coffee with mycotoxins or long humidity exposure, citing possible 2026 crop quality worries amid higher rains.
" Cooxupe has around 20,000 associated coffee farmers, who deliver all or a good part of their annual production to the co-op for it to store and resell. The firm operates in the main Minas Gerais coffee state in Brazil. The co-op said it will not accept deliveries of coffee that would show presence of mycotoxins, chemical substances produced naturally by certain molds and fungi on grains or coffee that sustained long exposure to humidity. The co-op did not immediately answer a Reuters request for additional comment.
Its action reinforces concerns raised by market players about possible quality issues with Brazil's 2026 crop due to higher humidity amid the El Nino anomaly. "I guess they are trying to avoid getting coffee that fell to the ground due to rains and stayed there for a while until being collected," said a local coffee broker. He said coffee that had contact with the wet soil for a prolonged period of time could develop a bad taste and would run the risk of being rejected by an importer. Brazilian farmers faced above-average rains during the harvest this year.
A lot of coffee fell from the trees and had to be swept from the ground. Coffee that had been collected and was put to dry on farms' yards also received rains. The broker said he believes the co-op wants to avoid problems with clients, and also save space in their warehouses for coffee that meets export grades. com; +1 332 220 8062; )