Nghe An strengthens inspection, handling of transportation, trade, and slaughter of sick pigs

Faced with the high price of live pigs in the market, some livestock farms have hidden the epidemic. When sick pigs die, they do not report to local authorities, but arbitrarily slaughter and sell sick pigs and dead pigs, causing food safety problems and spreading the disease.pandemic. To prevent the above mentioned acts, on March 19, the Chairman of Nghe An Provincial People's Committee issued Official Dispatch No. 1441/UBND-NN on strengthening inspection and handling of transportation, trading, and slaughtering of sick and dead pigs, in order to prevent the spread of animal diseases and protect the environment.

African swine fever is currently resurfacing in many localities in the province. Photo: Xuan Hoang

In which, it requires districts, cities, and towns to establish interdisciplinary inspection and control teams at collection, business, trading points, animal slaughterhouses, and pig roasters to promptly detect cases of trading, transporting, and slaughtering pigs suspected of being infected with diseases, sick pigs, dead pigs, and pork products.unknown origin, not ensuring food safety, spreading disease. Publicize the list and addresses of units violating the slaughter and trading of suspected diseased pigs, sick pigs, and dead pigs so that consumers know...

Direct district-level agricultural service centers to coordinate with People's Committees of communes, wards and towns to strictly implement slaughter control procedures according to regulations of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development....

Destroying pigs infected with the disease. Photo: Tien Dong

The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development directed the interdisciplinary mobile working group to strengthen inspection of the illegal transportation and trade of pigs and pig products; coordinate with localities to detect and handle violations in the work.quarantine, control of slaughtering, transporting pigs and pig products contrary to the provisions of law...

The Department of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine, in coordination with relevant units, strictly controls the transportation of pigs for slaughter purposes through the province; strengthens quarantine and control of pig transportation at the point of departure.

Inspect and guide localities to implement regulations on animal slaughter control, veterinary hygiene inspection to ensure disease safety, food safety, environmental protection.../.