Australia may accept Sth Is. pork again
PA Wellington A pork industry leader yesterday expressed hopes that exports could be resumed to Australia after the South Island received a clean bill of health from the potentially fatal pig ailment, Aujeszky’s disease. The general manager of the Pork Industry Board, Mr David Dobson, said he hoped the announcement this week that a Ministry of
Agriculture survey found no disease in all 602 herds in the South Island which had five or more breeding pigs would lead to the first pork exports to Australia since 1976. A lot of “groundwork” would be needed beforehand, however. Australia says that it does not have the disease and bans the import of pig meat.
The director of the Ministry’s Animal Health Divi-
sion, Dr Peter O’Hara, said yesterday that the Australian authorities would first have to accept the New Zealand survey as valid, and accept that movement of pigs from the North Island to the South Island was under control.
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