Swine news - Pig health

The lifting of the Japanese embargo is particularly significant as Japan represents an important market for the Belgian pork sector.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has just published guidance for preventing transmission of COVID-19 within food businesses that updates the interim guideline issued in April 2020.

Two farms have reported outbreaks of ASF so far in 2021 affecting a total of 13,124 susceptible animals.

So far three ASF outbreaks on pig farms have been reported in 2021.

This investment will ultimately help prevent and minimize the negative impacts of COVID-19 and other emerging and zoonotic diseases on animal health, the economy, public health, and food security.

In mid-September, the European Parliament is due to vote on a ban on the use in animals of antibiotics of importance in humans.

OIE data show positive samples were found in backyard farms in April.

A total of 22 organizations from 18 Latin American countries have formed a continent-wide committee to prevent the entry of African swine fever into the region.

The authorities are going to intervene in the backyard farms in these provinces to prevent further spread of the disease.

Following the confirmation of African swine fever (ASF) positive pigs in the Dominican Republic, Mexico and Colombia have taken extreme sanitary measures to prevent the introduction of this serious disease.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Foreign Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory has confirmed African swine fever (ASF) in samples collected from pigs in the Dominican Republic through an existing cooperative surveillance program.

To date, 31 outbreaks have occurred in domestic pigs, some of them located in areas where the disease had not been detected before.

The Department of Agriculture has allocated PHP41.6 million for 18 localities and the province of Pangasinan that were affected by ASF.

So far this year, 11 cases of African swine fever have been reported in eight provinces.

The second cleaning and disinfection was already mandatory for Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Poland, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Greece, and all third countries.

In the Märkisch-Oderland district, the presence of African swine fever has been confirmed in another farm of domestic pigs.

EFSA is stepping up its efforts to halt the spread of African swine fever in Europe by expanding its campaign to a further nine countries.

The results of the evaluation of antibiotic control over a seven-year period are presented in the third QS status report.

Both African swine fever outbreaks in wild boar (7,429) and in pigs (526) have increased compared to the same period last year.

The state crisis team to combat ASF in Brandenburg has decided to build a protection corridor along the border with Poland.

The significant fall in antibiotic use in food-producing animals suggests that the measures taken at country level to reduce use are proving to be effective.

The past month has been fraught with ASF outbreaks in pigs.

So far this year, seven outbreaks of ASF have been detected in domestic pigs, three of them in the Lodzkie Voivodeship.

The presidency concluded by emphasising the global aspect of the threat and the need to take action at international level.