British farmers can resume exports of live pigs to China after a gap of five years.
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Chinese import restrictions had prevented Britain exporting pigs and pig products to the country since 2000. Following the completion by the UK’s Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) of detailed technical questionnaires about the UK’s animal health status, the Chinese authorities recognised the UK’s freedom from classical swine fever in July 2005.
Further lobbying from Defra, the livestock industry and the British Embassy in Beijing has now secured an agreed health certificate for exports of live pigs to China.
“This is an important step towards the more lucrative pig meat exports market for UK industry and is another example of the strengthening UK/China relationship,” Defra said. Exports of pig meat to China is a potentially huge market for the UK pig industry where the main interest is specifically profit to be made by exporting offal (eaten in China) which UK companies currently have to pay to have rendered.
The last recorded case of classical swine fever (CSF) in the UK was on 15 November 2000 and the protection and surveillance zone was lifted on 30 December 2000.
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