U.S.-Canada Develop Protocol to Ensure Bilateral Trade in Event of Swine Fever Breakout in Feral Hogs
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) have enacted protocol to help ensure bilateral trade will continue if African swine fever (ASF) is detected in feral swine in either the U.S. or Canada, while still absent from domestic swine.
The intent of the protocol is to protect swine populations in both countries during an ASF outbreak in feral swine, while minimizing trade impact of life swine, swine products, and other swine commodities. If an ASF feral swine outbreak is detected, all trade between both countries would stop, at first. Then, according to protocol, trade would resume in three progressive phases, with reduced restrictions on life swine, swine germplasm, and untreated swine commodities.