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UPDATE 1-Philippines bans pig imports from Laos due to swine fever - WTO

Published 07/02/2019, 08:32 PM
Updated 07/02/2019, 08:40 PM
UPDATE 1-Philippines bans pig imports from Laos due to swine fever - WTO

(Adds controls on feed products in third and fourth paragraphs)
GENEVA, July 2 (Reuters) - The Philippines has banned
imports of pigs and pig products from Laos due to an African
swine fever outbreak, it said in filings published by the World
Trade Organization on Tuesday.
The Philippines' move follows similar steps by China and
Thailand, following an outbreak in Laos' southern province of
Saravane. The Philippines also said it was introducing new
"biosecurity measures", such as a quarantine period, for imports
of plant-based feed products from countries with the disease,
citing scientific evidence that African swine fever can spread
via feed products.
The extra controls on feed imports apply to Belgium,
Bulgaria, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, Hungary, Laos, Latvia,
Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Ukraine and Vietnam.
The disease, which is incurable in pigs but harmless to
humans, has spread rapidly across China since last August and
also spread this year in Vietnam. China has reported 137
outbreaks so far, but more are going unreported.
As many as half of China's breeding pigs have either died
from African swine fever or been slaughtered because of it,
twice as many as officially acknowledged, according to the
estimates of four people who supply large farms.

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