The Department of Agriculture (DA) will close its doors on imported pork products from Germany — one of the Philippines’ top suppliers of affordable raw pork material — as part of the country’s anti-African Swine Fever (ASF) measures.
This makes the Western European country the first country banned from exporting pork to the Philippines. Germany still remains free from the deadly hog disease, but is close to countries under ASF list.
Poland is one of the 18 countries with reported outbreak of ASF, a deadly hog disease which has no vaccine or cure. But while Germany is not included on the ASF list, it is contiguous with Poland and is therefore considered a “high risk” area. Based on its investigation, BAI found out that the ones that came from Poland was actually part of a shipment that came from Pro Food GmbH, a company based in Germany.
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