AN ‘ASSAULT’: After 10 carcasses that washed up on Kinmen tested positive for swine fever, the Ocean Affairs Council told China to ‘get your pigs in order’
Taipei Times
Date: Jun 09, 2019
By: Staff writer, with CNA
The government has suspended the export of pigs and pork products from Kinmen County
Disease prevention staff wearing protective clothing guard a pig carcass on a beach in Kinmen’s Jinhu Township on Tuesday.
Photo provided by Kinmen County Government
for at least one week after another two dead pigs that drifted to the outlying county close to China tested positive for African swine fever.
The two carcasses were found on Tuesday and Wednesday, and the polymerase chain reaction test of samples from them revealed they had been infected with the virus, the African Swine Fever Response Center said.
To prevent an outbreak of African swine fever in Taiwan proper, Kinmen County would be banned from exporting its pigs and pork products to Taiwan’s mainland and other outlying islands under Taiwan’s jurisdiction for at least a week, the center said.
However, seven companies in Kinmen that passed the government’s inspections could still sell their products to Taiwan proper and nearby outlying islands, it added.
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