LAPU-LAPU CITY, Philippines -- Lapu-Lapu City Mayor Junard "Ahong" Chan issued an executive order temporarily banning the entry of live hogs and pork-related products from Carcar City
Pigs and pork products are no longer allowed entry into Lapu-Lapu City based on the Executive Order signed on March 7 by City Mayor Junard “Ahong” Chan.
Chan signed Executive Order no. 2023-017 entitled “An Order Temporarily Banning the Entry of Live Hogs, Sows, Piglets, Boar Semen, Pork and Raw Pork-Related Products from Carcar City and Negros Island” dated March 7, 2023.The order was made after the Bureau of Animal Industry-Animal Disease Diagnosis and Reference Laboratory confirmed the detection of African Swine Fever in blood samples that they obtained from Carcar City during their ASF surveillance activities.
“WHEREAS, with the findings of BAI ADDRL, Lapu-Lapu City cannot risk the entry or invasion of the disease within its territorial jurisdiction through the delivery and distribution of hogs, sows, piglets, boar semen, pork, and raw pork-related products from Carcar City and Negros Island,” the executive order read.
The ban will take effect within 30 days. However, the ban will continue unless the Department of Agriculture or the BAI-ADDRL will declare that these areas are already ASF-Free.ASF found in slaughtered pigs in Carcar City
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