Mexico is pending the detection of diseases of external origin in the livestock sector

Published 2024년 5월 20일

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The Mexican government, in collaboration with industry and academia, is taking steps to safeguard the livestock sector from external diseases, enhancing inspection at ports, airports, and borders. With a focus on highly pathogenic avian influenza and African swine fever, efforts include increasing surveillance, reinforcing clinical inspection, regionalization, and traceability system implementation. Additionally, there is a call for increased pork consumption campaigns to capitalize on the safety and flavor of pork, as Mexico becomes one of the top pork producers globally. This comes amidst challenges such as environmental and economic difficulties, but supported by free trade agreements and despite phyto- and zoosanitary threats, inflation, price drops, and supply chain issues.

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The government of Mexico, industry and academia are pending the detection of diseases of external origin in the livestock sector, which could eventually affect national production, so through the National Agri-Food Health, Safety and Quality Service (Senasica ) works with all sectors to strengthen inspection work at ports, airports and borders. He highlighted that in the case of highly pathogenic avian influenza in dairy cattle in the United States, measures have been taken to increase surveillance on the part of producers and reinforce the clinical inspection of cattle from that country. When inaugurating the work of the Third Intercontinental Congress of Pork Farmers of the Organization of Mexican Pork Farmers (Opormex), the head of the Secretariat of Agriculture and Rural Development (Sader), Víctor Villalobos Arámbula, urged producers and industrialists not to let their guard down in the preventive actions, because although African swine fever remains under control, it is ...

Source: MXagronoticias