OREANDA-NEWS. August 16, 2012. Certain farm products imported from Russia will be subject to veterinary control in Belarus on a temporary basis, which reflects the government’s apprehensions fuelled by the fact that several pestholes of African swine fever have been registered in Russia over the past three years.

Since early 2011 African swine fever has spread over 25 administrative regions of Russia, including Tver – an area within a 300 km distance from Belarus’ Vitebsk Region. Belarus’ Agriculture Ministry finds it a direct threat to the country’s epizootic security.

The government of Belarus adopted a resolution with a list of import commodities subject to veterinary control. The list includes live pigs, pork and products made of pork, hunters’ trophies, dummies, grain species and products made of flour; products containing sausage, meat, by-products; used equipment for breeding, keeping, transporting all kinds of livestock.

If imported from Russia to Belarus, all enlisted commodities must have a CU veterinary certificates and permits issued by Belarus’ Veterinary Control Department.