Fri, 20/02/2015 - 17:43
MINSK, 20 February (BelTA) – Belarus has temporarily restricted the import of cattle from Canada, BelTA learned from the Veterinary and Food Control Department at the Belarusian Agriculture and Food Ministry.
“According to the World Organization for Animal Health, bovine spongiform encephalopathy was registered in Alberta Province of Canada,” the department said. In this regard, on 21 February Belarus will introduce temporary restrictions on the importation of Canadian pedigree and other cattle, sheep and goats, wild, zoo and circus animals susceptible to the disease, and also meat and other raw materials made from them, leather, feed and feed ingredients of animal origin containing the DNA of ruminants.
Belarus has temporarily suspended all the previously issued permits for the import of the above-mentioned products from Canada.
source: http://eng.belta.by/all_news/economics/Belarus-restricts-cattle-import-from-Canada_i_79793.html
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