Mandatory '8 major quarantine facilities' for pig farms in South Korea

Published 2021년 10월 18일

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The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs in South Korea is planning to expand the requirement for pig farms to install eight quarantine facilities, currently only required in specific zones, to nationwide. These facilities include fences, arrival and departure stands, quarantine rooms, waste management facilities, and more. The ministry is revising the 'Livestock Infectious Disease Prevention Act' to mandate these measures due to ongoing African Swine Fever outbreaks. The focus will be on guidance for waste management facilities to ensure collection and disposal of dead livestock, rather than enforcement. The Korea Handy Pig Association supports the extension of these facilities but argues that 'all rooms' should not be mandatory, as they are already equipped with fences and would be a duplicate measure.
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The obligation to install the ‘8 major quarantine facilities’, which is applied only to pig farms in the key quarantine management zone, is expected to be expanded to pig farms nationwide. As a result of the coverage of this paper, it was confirmed that the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs is pushing for strengthening quarantine measures with these contents through the revision of the ‘Livestock Infectious Disease Prevention Act’. The eight quarantine facilities refer to internal and external fences for the prevention of African Swine Fever (ASF), arrival and departure stands, quarantine rooms, all rooms, goods entry facilities, fish protection and insect screens, and livestock-related waste management facilities. Currently, the installation is compulsory only for pig farms in some areas of Gangwon and Gyeonggi, designated as key quarantine management zones, and pig farms in other areas are recommended to install. An official from the Ministry of ...
Source: Nongmin

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