Japan to strengthen countermeasures against African swine fever
The Cabinet approved Tuesday a reform bill to further strengthen countermeasures at its ports of entry against African swine fever. The measures against the disease spreading across Asia include increased fines for illegally bringing meat products into the country and greater authority for inspectors to ...
Japan to raise fines for pork smuggling in bid to contain spread of African swine fever
The agriculture ministry will raise fines for smuggling pork products as part of efforts to prevent African swine fever (ASF) from entering the country. The maximum fine for individuals will be tripled to ¥3 million, the ministry said Wednesday. Penalties for corporations will be raised ...
Japan farm ministry sets preventive culling guidelines for African swine fever
A farm ministry panel on Friday approved a plan to allow the preventive culling of healthy pigs within 3 km of confirmed African swine fever outbreaks. The measure will be included in the ministry's guidelines under the revised law on controlling domestic animal infectious diseases, ...
Japan plans wider pig culls if African swine fever discovered
In the event a pig with African swine fever (ASF) is found at a farm, all pigs at farms within up to 3 kilometers of the affected facility could be culled in order to prevent the highly pathogenic disease from spreading, agriculture ministry sources ...
China pig farm jams drones dropping swine fever-laced products onto its sites, but also GPS
One of China's biggest animal feed producers said it had used a radio transmitter to combat crooks using drones to drop pork products contaminated with African swine fever on its pig farms, as part of a racket to profit from the health scare. In July, ...
U.S. pork prices rising as fatal pig disease cuts global meat supply, says Tyson CEO
U.S. pork prices rose in recent weeks at a time when they would normally be falling, as a fatal pig disease in China is tightening global meat supplies, the chief executive of Tyson Foods Inc. said on Tuesday. The price increase is probably the first ...
China bans South Korea pig imports on African swine fever fears
China has banned pig imports from South Korea after Seoul became the latest to report an outbreak of the African swine fever that has destroyed hog herds and pushed up prices globally. Beijing has been battling to bring an outbreak of the disease among its ...
Industry insiders say perhaps half of China's breeding pigs have died in swine fever epidemic
As many as half of China's breeding pigs have either died from African swine fever or have been slaughtered because of the spreading disease, twice as many as officially acknowledged, according to the estimates of four people who supply large farms. While other estimates are ...
Vietnam culls 1.2 million pigs as African swine fever spreads nationwide
Vietnam has culled more than 1.2 million farmed pigs infected with African swine fever, the government said Monday, as the virus continues to spread rapidly in the Southeast Asian country. Pork accounts for three-quarters of total meat consumption in Vietnam, a country of 95 million ...
Infectious form of African swine fever virus detected for first time in Japan, in meat from China
The agriculture ministry said the discovery of the virus has prompted a decision to strengthen measures against illegal imports of livestock products.
