The Ministry of Agriculture has prepared amendments to the rules for combating African swine fever in Russia

The Russian Ministry of Agriculture has made a number of changes to the current veterinary rules for combating African swine fever (ASF). They are posted on the website of the official publication of regulatory legal acts. One of the main changes was a new basis for suspecting the presence of this disease. Now it will be feeding pigs food waste and hunting products obtained from wild boars. Let us recall that the latter are one of the main sources of transmission of the virus. The difference from the current rules is that now the reason for suspicion is a waste plant or hunting products from an ASF-affected area. The document also provides for several technical changes regarding the diagnosis of the disease and the procedure. In particular, the collection of control samples from animals for prevention will be regulated depending on the number of livestock. For example, in farms with 1 to 15 pigs, they will be taken from each animal, from 16 to 50 - from 15, from 51 to 100 - from ...