US EditionGovt and Industry Ink Deal to Tackle Potential Foot-and-Mouth Crisis
- On 11 June 2025, the New Zealand government and six livestock industry groups signed a new agreement at Fieldays to manage foot and mouth disease risks.
- This agreement resulted from years of collaboration to jointly prepare for and respond to a possible outbreak, following recent outbreaks in Germany and Hungary earlier in 2025.
- The agreement formalizes cost-sharing where industry contributes 40% of readiness and 15% of response expenses, capped at $450 million, and gains a formal decision-making seat.
- Andrew Hoggard, Minister for Biosecurity, highlighted that the new agreement represents an important advancement in protecting New Zealand’s livestock industry, noting that while eradication costs could reach $3 billion, failure to act might result in a $14.3 billion annual drop in export earnings.
- The new agreement represents a key advancement in New Zealand’s biosecurity efforts, establishing a collaborative framework between the government and livestock industries to enhance preparedness and share costs for foot-and-mouth disease response over the next five years.
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The government of Canada announced the creation of its first national bank of foot-and-mouth disease vaccines, a key measure to protect the livestock sector of the country from a possible outbreak of this highly contagious disease. It was known that the health authorities of that country seek to provide producers with this tool to control and eliminate the disease in the event of an outbreak.
Animals susceptible to the disease can be transported from Hungary, and blood tests are only required in certain cases.
In the absence of less than a week before the deadline set by Resolution 186/2025 of the National Service of Health and Agro-Food Quality (Sennasa), which suspended for 90 days the permit to enter boned meat south of the Colorado River from areas free of foot-and-mouth disease with vaccination, the national government carried out an extension of the measure.With Resolution 419 of the health agency known today in the Official Gazette, an extensio…
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