US Recognises EU regions free from Hog Cholera (Classical Swine Fever)
US - USDA, APHIS are amending their regulations concerning the importation of animals and animal products to recognize a region in the European Union as a region in which hog cholera (CSF) is not known to exist.
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The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Animal and Plant Health Inspectorate Service (APHIS) are amending their
regulations concerning the importation
of animals and animal products to
recognize a region in the European
Union as a region in which hog cholera
(classical swine fever) is not known to
exist, and from which breeding swine,
swine semen, and pork and pork
products may be imported into the
United States under certain conditions,
in the absence of restrictions associated
with other foreign animal diseases of
swine.
Additionally, APHIS are recognizing
Greece and four Regions in Italy as free
of swine vesicular disease.
These actions are based on a request from the
European Commission’s (EC’s)
Directorate General for Agriculture and
on our analysis of the supporting
documentation supplied by the EC and
individual Member States.
These actions will relieve some restrictions on
the importation into the United States of
certain animals and animal products
from those regions.
However, because of
the status of those regions with respect
to other diseases, and, in some cases,
because of other factors that could
otherwise result in a risk of introducing
animal diseases into the United States,
the importation of animals and animal
products into the United States from
those regions will continue to be subject
to certain restrictions.
Effective Date: April 7, 2003.
For further information contact :
Dr.
Gary Colgrove, Director, Sanitary Trade
Issues Team,
VS, APHIS,
4700 River
Road Unit 38,
Riverdale,
MD 20737–
1231;
(301) 734–4356.
The full risk
analysis and economic analysis
associated with this rule may be
obtained electronically at
http://www.aphis.usda.gov/vs/ncie/regrequest.html, or by contacting the
person listed under this heading.
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Source: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service - 7th April 2003