Belgian pork back on Japan exemplary market

Fourteen of the thirty countries that banned Belgian pork after the discovery of ASF in wild boars, are accessible again. This is reported by the Federal Agency for the Safety of the Food Chain (FAVV). The reopening of those markets in third countries is of great importance to the Belgian Meat Office (BMO), the meat export agency of Flemish agricultural marketing. According to BMO spokesperson Joris Coenen, this concerns various markets that purchase products that are less valued in Belgium and Europe. Belgium was officially declared ASF-free on 21 December 2020 by the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE). Export ban The FASFC then started negotiations with the countries that imposed an embargo in 2018. South Korea, South Africa, Singapore, Belarus, Mexico, Uruguay, Ukraine, Russia, the French Overseas Territory of New Caledonia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Thailand, Nicaragua, Vietnam, Malaysia and the Philippines have the export ban for Belgian pork released. At ...