No evidence that the swine fever virus came out of the IRTA-CReSA laboratory

The Generalitat has assured that, according to the report by the technicians of the European Commission (EC), the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, and the audit commissioned by the Catalan Government to determine the origin of the swine fever outbreak in Collserola (Barcelona), there is no "evidence" or "indications" that the virus came from the IRTA-CReSA laboratory. This was stated by the conseller of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Food of the Generalitat, Òscar Ordeig, in a press conference at the headquarters of IRTA-CReSA, an animal health research center located in Cerdanyola del Vallès (Barcelona). Ordeig stated that the report by the EC and Ministry technicians maintains that "there is no evidence or indications" that the origin of the virus is the CReSA, since both its facilities and its protocols "are fine," and ...