EU INSISTS ON PED TESTS FOR LIVE PIGS IMPORTED FROM THE USA AND CANADA
June 8th, 2014
LIVE pigs imported from the USA and Canada will henceforth be tested for porcine epidemic diarrhoea (PED) to prevent the disease being introduced to Europe from north America.The controls have been approved by the European Union’s (EU) standing committee on the food chain and animal health (SCOFCAH).A European Commission note on the decision stressed that emerging PED viruses in north America are “causing major losses particularly to the US pig industry”. It said that the USA and Canada are authorised to export live pigs to the EU, with 900 high genetic ...
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