Conditional permission to use ‘waste food’ as pig feed in South Korea

Published Oct 4, 2024

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The government is reviewing a plan to conditionally allow feeding pigs with leftover food, following a request from the National Food, Feed, and Livestock Association. This has been virtually banned since the outbreak of African swine fever (ASF) in September 2019. If implemented, it could bring significant changes to the feed industry and quarantine management sector of pig farms. However, the Korea Pork Producers Association cautions that the lifting of restrictions on waste food movement may lead to a decrease in auction prices due to consumer perception, and suggests the establishment of a separate distribution system.
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It has been confirmed that the government is reviewing a plan to conditionally allow feeding pigs with leftover food (food scraps). Feeding pigs with leftover food has been virtually banned since the outbreak of African swine fever (ASF) in September 2019. If it is resumed, it is expected to bring about major changes to the entire feed industry and the quarantine management sector of pig farms. The National Food, Feed, and Livestock Association recently announced that it visited the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs in early September to request the lifting of restrictions on the movement of leftover food so that leftover food can be turned into feed and fed to pigs. The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs has prohibited feeding leftover food as feed since the first outbreak of ASF in domestic pig farms in September 2019 due to concerns about infection. According to the ‘Livestock Infectious Disease Prevention Act,’ each local government head can ...
Source: Nongmin
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