Tag: World Organization for Animal Health

• Tuesday, November 23rd 2021 - 08:15 UTC

  Montana Senator presents bill to suspend Brazilian beef sales to the United States

  

  United States Senator for the cattle breeding state of Montana, Jon Tester has presented a bill to suspend beef imports from Brazil. The congressman alleges that the Brazilian authorities were slow to notify the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) about the two cases of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), also known as “mad cow disease”, confirmed in September, and which led to an agreed ban con beef exports to China.

• Friday, January 10th 2020 - 12:10 UTC

  Electric fences between Poland and Germany to avoid spread of African swine fever

  

  Poland recorded 55 outbreaks of African swine fever in wild boar near the German border last month, the world animal health body said on Thursday, in a sign the deadly virus is spreading near one of the European Union's biggest pork exporters.

• Thursday, October 31st 2019 - 08:42 UTC

  African swine fever will spread further and no country is immune, OIE

  

  African swine fever will spread further across Asia where it has devastated herds, and no country is immune from being hit by the deadly animal virus, the head of the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) said on Wednesday.

• Saturday, July 13th 2019 - 16:11 UTC

  Temporary restrictions on Brazilian pork exports to Russia imposed

  

  Russia's Federal Veterinary and Phytosanitary Control Service (Rosseljoznadzor) has imposed temporary restrictions from 11 July on the importation of pork products and other animals vulnerable to classical swine fever virus from the State of Piauí, located in the northeast region of Brazil, it was announced.

• Wednesday, December 26th 2012 - 07:25 UTC

  Brazil warns countries that have banned imports of beef because of atypical BSE

  

  The world’s top beef exporter, Brazil, will give countries that curbed imports of its beef after a case of mad cow disease until March to drop the measures or it will file a complaint at the World Trade Organization, farm ministry officials said.

• Friday, February 4th 2011 - 23:13 UTC

  Paraguay recovers full status of free of foot and mouth disease with vaccination

  

  Paraguay recovered full status of “country free of foot and mouth disease with vaccination” following the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) decision to lift the “high vigilance zone” over 1.2 million cattle.