Argentina: Controls in the Patagonian region to protect health and health heritage

Published 2024년 1월 26일

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Argentina's National Agri-Food Health and Quality Service (Senasa) has confiscated fruit fly host products and 460 kilograms of meat due to inadequate documentation and sanitary conditions. The seizures are part of Senasa's ongoing efforts to prevent the introduction of potentially harmful meat or vegetable products. The agency has called on the public to help maintain the Patagonian region's achievements in animal health.

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General Roca, (Río Negro) - The National Agri-Food Health and Quality Service (Senasa) continues with control and prevention tasks to prevent the entry of meat or vegetable products that put the health of the population at risk, and the pest- and disease-free areas of the region. Personnel from the Senasa Patagonian Zoophytosanitary Barrier, during the days of Friday, January 19 and Saturday, January 20, seized fruit fly host products in passenger transport with temporary workers traveling from the northern provinces to carry out harvest tasks in the productive valleys. On Friday it was mangoes and on Saturday it was figs in small quantities but, in both cases, they had live fruit fly larvae. Meanwhile, last Thursday, January 18, sweepers from the Puente Dique Catriel checkpoint with the assistance of the Río Negro Police seized 460 kilograms of meat on bone from a utility vehicle that had evaded control bound for Catriel. After the interception by the provincial police at the ...

Source: Argentina.gob.ar