China prohibits the import of ruminants and their products from Japan

Introduction: on September 22, Japan admitted to discovering the first case of BSE in Asia China's government quickly made a response and announced that it was forbidden to import cattle, beef products and ruminant feed from Japan The ruminant and its products prohibited from import include: cattle, cattle embryos, beef products, and ruminant feedstuffs such as beef bone meal and bone meal of cattle Experts said that the main purpose of banning the import of these products is to fundamentally cut off the source of BSE from Japan to China Wang Xiaohong, feed Department of animal husbandry and Veterinary Bureau of the Ministry of agriculture, said: "in order to cut off the source of BSE, we have banned the import of ruminant feed from countries in epidemic areas since the 1990s, fundamentally solving the problem of BSE introduction Therefore, from feed to breeding animals, to food, this is a complete chain We cut off the middle link, which is feed The introduction of BSE has been completely solved in the first half of this year " According to the introduction, cattle and sheep in China are mainly raised in a loose way, with little compound feed Therefore, there is no basic element of transmission of BSE, and no cases of BSE have been found so far From the current situation, the epidemic situation of BSE in Japan will not have a great impact on China However, it is still necessary to prevent the introduction of BSE At present, China has strengthened the monitoring of the epidemic situation "In March this year, the Ministry of agriculture and the State Administration of entry exit inspection and Quarantine issued announcement No 143, prohibiting the direct or indirect import of cattle, bovine embryos, bovine semen, beef products and their products, and ruminant derived feed from the countries and regions where mad cow disease occurs, in addition to the 13 confirmed discoveries of mad cow at that time," said Qin Dechao, the Veterinary Department of the animal husbandry and Veterinary Bureau of the Ministry of agriculture In addition to the sick countries, it is also stipulated that in the future, all countries newly found with BSE will be automatically listed in the above list, that is to say, according to our mechanism, Japan has been listed in the list of prohibited imports at present " (author:) share to feed Weibo share to: