APHIS Removes Restrictions on Swine & Pork Product Imports from Europe
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is removing some conditions on importing live swine, swine semen, pork, and pork products from Europe, as well as restrictions on importing these products from Estonia, Hungary, Slovakia, and Slovenia. Effective Jan. 16,…
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APHIS is removing the requirement for a 40-day holding period for swine semen, and donor boars after the collection of swine semen, for the European CSF (classical swine fever) region. The agency is also adding Estonia, Hungary, Slovakia, and Slovenia to the APHIS-defined European CSF region, adding Estonia, Slovakia, and Slovenia to the list of regions APHIS considers free of swine vesicular disease (SVD), and adding Slovakia and Slovenia to the list of regions APHIS considers free of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) and rinderpest. These actions will relieve some restrictions on the importation into the U.S. of certain animals and animal products from those regions, APHIS said.