EU: African swine fever campaign, EFSA is raising awareness in more countries

Last summer, EFSA launched the ASP Awareness Campaign in Southeast European countries. The program involved the “region of concern”, ie the authorities of the countries in whose neighborhood the disease had already appeared, namely Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Greece, Kosovo, Montenegro, northern Macedonia, Serbia and Slovenia. EFSA is now extending the campaign to Hungary, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Slovakia, Estonia and Romania, targeting pig farmers in particular. “As a scientific organization, we are working tirelessly to make assessments and make recommendations that can help countries threatened by African swine fever to protect their animals and farms,” said Nikolaus Kriz, head of EFSA’s Veterinary and Phytosanitary Unit. “Last year, we decided to take our scientific knowledge to the scene, to a more practical level, and show that EFSA is committed to helping farmers and others living in the shadow of this terrible disease. The ...