PigProgress - USA and Canada agree on ASF protocol
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U S & Canada develop strategy in case of ASF outbreak in feral hogs
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As African swine fever (ASF) continues to spread and reemerge in countries overseas, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) announced March 16 that they have developed a protocol to help ensure bilateral trade will continue if ASF is detected in feral swine in either country, while still absent from domestic swine.
The protocol intends to protect swine populations in both countries during an outbreak of ASF in feral swine while minimizing impacts on the trade of live swine, swine products, and other swine commodities. Upon an ASF feral swine detection, all trade between both countries would initially stop. Then, according to the protocol, trade would resume in three, progressive phases with increasingly reduced restrictions on live swine, swine germplasm, and untreated swine commodities.