Switzerland further relaxed import restrictions on Britain and Netherlands due to foot-and-mouth disease
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Last Update: 2001-08-20
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Introduction: the Swiss Federal Animal Husbandry Bureau announced recently that Switzerland will further relax the import restrictions on the UK and the Netherlands due to foot-and-mouth disease For the UK, Switzerland has decided to re allow imports of its horses from now on, as long as they have not been in contact with cloven hooves In the Netherlands, fresh meat and dairy products will be allowed to be imported again from August 25 this year At the same time, Switzerland continues to ban imports of UK cloven hooves, meat and unsterilized dairy products At the end of May, Switzerland announced the lifting of the ban on the import of cloven hoofed live animals from other EU countries, but it continues to quarantine dairy products in these countries Since the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in February, Europe has slaughtered and burned about 3 million animals, with losses of up to 1.2 billion Swiss francs (US $700 million).
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