Argentina: Senasa reinforces border controls to prevent the entry of bee diseases

The organization also issued recommendations to those returning or entering Argentina from third countries and to producers in the sector. "The main threat as a quarantine pest is the small hive beetle (PEC), which is not present in Argentina but in countries with which we share a border such as Bolivia, Paraguay and Brazil," explained the head of the National Bee Health Program of the Senasa, Mauricio Rabinovich. The main export destinations for Argentine honey are the United States and the European Union, to whom we send "almost half of our export volume with a certificate that says that Argentina is free of PEC. Maintaining that condition allows us to comply with that requirement," Rabinovich explained. In this way, with a presence at 108 border control posts divided between airports, land crossings and ports, Senasa personnel inspect passenger luggage in order to control that products of health risk for national production and health are not transported. of the consumer. ...