EUROPEAN COMMISSION ATTACKS RUSSIA PORK IMPORT BAN AS OVERREACTION
February 1st, 2014
THE EUROPEAN Commission has called a Russian ban on pork imports “disproportionate” and has appealed to Russian authorities end it as soon as possible. Russia stopped a number of exports from European Union (EU) member states when two wild boars were diagnosed with African Swine Fever (ASF) last month in Lithuania.European Commissioner for health Tonio Borg has assured his Russian counterparts that the ASF outbreak was confined to the southern part of that Baltic state and that EU measures had been enforced to contain infections. “I deeply regret that our ...
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