Tag: FMD

Friday, May 30th 2025 - 10:30 UTC
Brazil recognized once again as free of FMD without vaccination

Brazil has officially been recognized by the World Organization for Animal Health for the second straight year as free of foot-and-mouth disease without vaccination. The acknowledgment, granted during the organization’s 92nd General Session in Paris, reinforces Brazil’s commitment to livestock health and global trade.
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Thursday, May 29th 2025 - 10:04 UTC
Bolivia free of FMD without vaccination

Bolivia has been certified by the World Organization for Animal Health as free of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) without vaccination, a status shared only with Brazil in South America. This milestone, achieved through over 20 years of public-private efforts and a US$ 350 million investment, benefits around 200,000 livestock producers. Bolivia is to be officially granted such recognition during a ceremony on Thursday.
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Thursday, April 26th 2018 - 08:37 UTC
Outbreaks of FMD in swine farms in China and Korea

The Swine Health Information Center (SHIC) posted a new global swine disease monitoring report on earlier this month, with information on Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD) activity in China and Korea presenting the highest concern.
Tuesday, July 18th 2017 - 05:11 UTC
Mercosur farmers will continue to vaccinate against foot and mouth disease

Mercosur Federation of Rural Associations consider inconvenient that the region should cease to vaccinate cattle against foot and mouth disease.
Wednesday, July 1st 2015 - 02:57 UTC
US opens its market to Argentine fresh beef imports; lemons still pending

Argentina announced that the United States APHIS (Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service) has allowed fresh beef imports from Argentina, lifting a 15-year ban which Buenos Aires had always considered 'unjustified' and bluntly 'protectionist' and as such had claimed before the WTO. In the same vein Argentina also anticipated it expected a similar decision from the US regarding Argentine lemons.
Friday, December 20th 2013 - 06:41 UTC
Brazil expects to begin exporting matured beef to the US in first half of 2014

Brasilia and Washington have taken the latest technical steps to open the US market to Brazilian beef, which if all runs smoothly together with a 60 to 90 days public consultation period could see the first shipments in the second quarter of next year. Currently because of sanitary barriers linked to Foot and Mouth Disease, FMD, Brazil can only export industrialized beef to the US.
Thursday, February 14th 2013 - 20:55 UTC
Paraguay looking ahead to a promising year for beef exports and cattle ranching

Abattoirs in Paraguay during January slaughtered 73% more cattle than a year ago indicating strong demand both from overseas and local markets, but also the end of restrictions because of the foot and mouth disease outbreaks that last year knocked out the land locked country from foreign markets.
Wednesday, November 21st 2012 - 08:03 UTC
Chile reopens market for Paraguayan beef after a twelve-month ban

Chile has re-opened its market to Paraguayan beef announced on Tuesday to his peers Sixto Miranda, head of the country’s Rural Society, following a meeting with Foreign Minister Jose Fernandez Estigarribia.
Thursday, June 28th 2012 - 07:47 UTC
FAO/OIE launch global strategy to eradicate foot and mouth disease world wide

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) are joining forces to combat foot-and-mouth disease on a global scale, laying out a detailed strategy to bring the devastating livestock disease under control.
Wednesday, May 16th 2012 - 22:19 UTC
Paraguay’s beef exports picking up after two outbreaks of FMD

Paraguay’s meat exports totalled 285 million dollars in the first four months of the year, which makes it the second best four-months for the industry in recent years, said German Ruiz, head of the country’s Rural Association.