Russia's agriculture safety watchdog urged swine producers to make sure they don’t allow pigs infected with African swine fever (ASF) to go into the food chain, Reuters reports on Thursday. The group said it had found traces of ASF in pork products in several regions, urging the pork industry to step up controls. Genetic traces of the virus - which is highly contagious among pigs, but is not dangerous to humans - were detected in products from the Voronezh region in the central part of Russia earlier this year, Reuters reports. Although there is no public health threat or food safety concern for humans, these products were supplied to several other central. Read more...
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