MANILA – A group of traders on Wednesday said it limited the importation of pork products to countries that have no cases of African swine fever (ASF).
These include the US, South America, Australia, Canada, UK, Ireland, Spain and Denmark, said Samahang Industriya ng Agrikultura (SINAG) president Rosendo So.
Regulators this week banned pork from Vietnam, Zambia, South Africa, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Mongolia, Moldova and Belgium.
A “temporary ban” was earlier imposed on pork from China, Hungary, Latvia, Poland, Romania, Russia and Ukraine.
ASF is not dangerous to humans but is fatal to pigs and wild boars, and has no vaccine or cure.
The country’s pork surplus can last for 5 months even without additional imports, Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piñol earlier said.
Pork prices jumped by P30 to around P230 per kilo on Wednesday at the Kamuning Market in Quezon City, dzMM monitoring showed. (ABS-CBN News)
