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Belarus bans pork import from Rostov Oblast

MINSK, 18 July (BelTA) – Belarus has banned pork import from Rostov Oblast, the Russian Federation, BelTA learnt from the Veterinary and Food Monitoring Department of the Belarusian Agriculture and Food Ministry.

According to Rosselkhoznadzor (the Russian Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance), African swine fever was detected in this region.

In this respect Belarus has introduced a ban on the import of live animals, pork and processed pork products, hides, hoof raw materials, hog hair, hog meat, and hunter’s trophy acquired from susceptible animals. Belarus has also banned the import of fodder and feed supplements for animals including those made from poultry and fish, supplementary feed for cats and dogs and ready-made feed for dogs and cats that have been thermally treated and made out of raw materials originating from Rostov Oblast, as well as second-hand equipment to breed, slaughter and gut pigs.

The Veterinary and Food Monitoring Department stressed the necessity of additional measures for environmental control of pig-breeding complexes and farms.

African swine fever is a contagious viral disease that affects domestic and wild swine. The disease is transmitted via direct contact, via products made of pork, by ticks and mechanically (by transportation means, during the transportation of people and animals). No vaccine is available. The animals suspected to have the disease are slaughtered. The disease does not affect humans.