State Service for Food Safety of Armenia bans pork imports from Ukraine

YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 2, ARMENPRESS. The State Service for Food Safety of the Ministry of Agriculture of Armenia has banned the imports of pigs, their genetic materials, pork, and other nutrition containing pork from Ukraine into Armenia.

As “Armenpress” was informed from the State Service for Food Safety, this decision by the head of the institution aims preventing the dissemination of African swine fever recorded in Ukraine into Armenia. The evidence of the existence of the African swine fever in Ukraine is posted in the official website of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE).