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The conference was attended by experts from the hunting community, scientists, the European Commission, EFSA, OIE, national authorities as well as key stakeholders from EU farming and pig meat sectors.

For 2019, the Commission decided to allocate about €154 million to the fight against animal diseases and infectious diseases of animals that can be transmitted to humans as well as to support plant pests surveys.

In 2018, the ASF cases in the EU both in domestic pigs and wild boars increased considerably.

Besides intensifying wild boar hunting, Denmark has started to build a fence along the Danish-German border.

The tests were conducted on salami and sausages confiscated from a man who flew from Chengdu.

The ASPROCER and SAG have launched a campaign to avoid the entry of meat products, thus avoiding the possible entry of diseases such as African swine fever.

As 2019 gets underway, we see another year full of potential in global pork, with growth in production and demand in many parts of the world. Yet this is overshadowed by the uncertainty created by complex disease and trade issues, as can be read in the just-released RaboResearch report ‘Pork Quarterly Q1 2019: Another Uncertain Year – With More Complex Disease and Trade Issues’.

The measures regarding the ban on the circulation in the forests located in the buffer and core areas have been extended.

A 'white area' with a radius of a few kilometres around the cases in Belgium and where all the wild boars will be culled will be set up.

Australia’s strict biosecurity authorities have detected African Swine Fever (ASF) at international border banned pork products, a disease that has proven devastating for the pork industry across China recently.