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Meat ban update: Mozambique maintains restrictions on livestock imports – Notícias
12:03 CAT | 07 Nov 2017
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The National Veterinary Administration has decided to maintain the ban on imports of bovines, goats, sheep, pigs and their products, by-products and fodder from infected areas in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Malawi. The ban was imposed following the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in those countries last August.
Veterinary authorities have however decided to lift the ban on the entry of meat and meat products from areas considered free of foot-and-mouth disease in South Africa.
A statement sent to Noticias notes that the measures are the result of an assessment of the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in, and confined to, a containment zone in Limpopo province, Mopani district, Guiyani municipality.
The list of prohibited import products excludes those subject to a treatment process which deactivates the foot-and-mouth virus and meat deboned immediately after slaughter.
Additional measures to be implemented in the country include intensified surveillance of the movement and transit of animals, animal products and by-products and fodder at the country’s entry points.
“Routine inspection of livestock in the border districts of Maputo, Gaza and Manica, mandatory visual inspection with examination of the oral cavity and hooves of all cattle, goats, sheep and pigs in the districts bordering the Republic of South Africa” are in force, the note reads.
Measures including cattle vaccination in the provinces of Maputo, Gaza and Manica will be reviewed in the light of the outbreak in South Africa.
Foot-and-mouth disease is a highly contagious viral disease occurring among ruminants and swine, with the southern and central areas of Mozambique worst affected.
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