PORK BAN
April 1st, 2002
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EU'S Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health has approved a European Commission plan to ban the export of all live pigs and porcine semen, ova and embryos from the Rhineland-Palatinate region of Germany, except districts east of the Rhine. The move follows a local outbreak of classical swine fever.
THE EU'S Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health has approved a European Commission plan to ban the export of all live pigs and porcine semen, ova and embryos from the Rhineland-Palatinate region of Germany, except districts east of the Rhine. The move follows a local outbreak of classical swine fever.
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