Philippines bans pig products from S’pore following African swine fever detection
SINGAPORE – Travellers to the Philippines carrying pig products from Singapore will have their items confiscated, after a temporary ban imposed by the Philippines’ Department of Agriculture on Monday.Although Singapore is not an accredited exporter of porcine products to the Philippines, the ban includes products carried by hand – with pork, pig skin and pig semen cited as examples.
Besides confiscating such products at all major ports of entry, the Philippines would not be issuing any Sanitary and Phytosanitary import clearances for pig products from Singapore henceforth, he added. The latest restriction on pig products from Singapore comes after African swine fever was detected in a wild boar carcass in the north-west of the island in February.
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