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Malaysia Halts Spanish Pork Imports Amid Swine Fever Concerns
Malaysia has imposed a ban on most Spanish pork and pork products imports due to an outbreak of African swine fever near Barcelona. The ban does not apply to retort products, and exemptions exist for products certified before specified dates.
South Africa has suspended the import from all of Spain of fresh, frozen, cured pork meat, pig semen, guts and pig blood products produced after 27 October due to outbreaks of African swine fever detected in feral pigs in the province of Barcelona. The African country will also not accept containers in transit with a date of production after 27 October, according to the update note published by the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and …
Outside the EU, China does not accept meat from the Barcelona area and Japan has completely closed the market due to African swine fever.
Spain is fighting swine fever.
The Government has announced, at the end of a week since the first two cases of the African swine fever (PPA) were detected in Catalonia, that it extends the ban on access to the natural environment that was already in force within a radius of 6 km (12 municipalities, high risk area) to prevent African swine fever, so that these restrictions will extend to a radius of 20 km. In total, access to the natural environment is vetoed to 91 municipalit…
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