Tanzania stopped importing cloven hoofed meat products from South Africa (11.24
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Last Update: 2003-03-12
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Tanzania decided to stop importing meat and meat products of all cloven hoofed animals from South Africa as a result of the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in some areas of South Africa, the Tanzanian government announced Tuesday In a statement, the Livestock Development Department of the Ministry of agriculture and cooperatives of Tanzania said that the Tanzanian government took this measure to protect the safety of 15 million livestock in the country It is reported that 36 countries, including Tanzania, have announced to stop the import of cloven hoofed livestock meat products from South Africa since some farm animals in KwaZulu Natal province, the most important livestock production base in South Africa, became infected with foot-and-mouth disease in mid September Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is an acute, contagious disease that occurs in cloven hoofed animals such as pigs, sheep and cattle It is mainly transmitted by feed, sick animals and sick animals Chinese feed industry information network IEN (author:)
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