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South America
Chile Bans Meat Imports From Two
Argentine Provinces Due To FMD
On July 30, Chile's Agriculture Ministry announced the suspension of all meat imports into Chile from two Argentine provinces – Salta and Formosa – that share a border with Paraguay due to the recent foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) outbreak in Paraguay and Bolivia. FMD is highly contagious and mainly affects sheep, pigs and cattle, but not humans. Chile is the only entire South American country to be certified FMD-free by the World Organization of Animal Health; Chile has also introduced new sanitary controls at its border with Bolivia to protect itself from the new regional FMD outbreak. Chile's farm service said Argentine authorities would now need to certify that any meat exported to Chile does not include slaughtered meat from either Salta or Formosa. Ironically, the Office International des Epizooties (OIE) recently declared northern Argentina FMD-free (north of the 42° parallel) with the help of vaccination, backdating the status to July 7. Chile seems to doubt that this FMD-free status will last following the recent FMD outbreaks in neighboring areas.
South American officials are treating the new FMD outbreak with serious concern; agriculture ministers from Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay declared a regional alert for FMD at a meeting in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, on July 26. After health officials reported new FMD cases in the Bolivian states of Cuquisaca and Potosi and in neighboring Paraguay, fear increased over a possible repeat of the 2001 epidemic in the continent. The seven agriculture ministers signed an agreement to implement an emergency plan to fight the disease, including a mass vaccination campaign.
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South America
Chile Bans Meat Imports From Two
Argentine Provinces Due To FMD
On July 30, Chile’s Agriculture Ministry announced the suspension of all meat imports into Chile from two Argentine provinces – Salta and Formosa – that share a border with Paraguay due to the recent foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) outbreak in Paraguay and Bolivia. FMD is highly contagious and mainly affects sheep, pigs and cattle, but not humans. Chile is the only entire South American country to be certified FMD-free by the World Organization of Animal Health; Chile has also introduced new sanitary controls at its border with Bolivia to protect itself from the new regional FMD outbreak. Chile’s farm service said Argentine authorities would now need to certify that any meat exported to Chile does not include slaughtered meat from either Salta or Formosa. Ironically, the Office International des Epizooties (OIE) recently declared northern Argentina FMD-free (north of the 42° parallel) with the help of vaccination, backdating the status to July 7. Chile seems to doubt that this FMD-free status will last following the recent FMD outbreaks in neighboring areas.
South American officials are treating the new FMD outbreak with serious concern; agriculture ministers from Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay declared a regional alert for FMD at a meeting in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, on July 26. After health officials reported new FMD cases in the Bolivian states of Cuquisaca and Potosi and in neighboring Paraguay, fear increased over a possible repeat of the 2001 epidemic in the continent. The seven agriculture ministers signed an agreement to implement an emergency plan to fight the disease, including a mass vaccination campaign.
Agriculture Ocean Transportation Coalition (AGOTC) - Ocean Transportation Issues. Please submit your individual nominations for the 2003 USMEF Distinguished Service Award to USMEF by August 15. Click here to download the DSA nomination form in PDF format. Simply fill out this PDF, save it on your computer and then e-mail it back as an attachment to Tiffani Neitzel at tneitzel@usmef.org. USMEF Board of Directors Meeting - November 5-7, 2003
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