Potential for Zoning and other Approaches to Mitigate Trade

Impacts in an ASF Outbreak in the United States

Jim Roth, DVM, PhDDirector, Center for Food Security and Public Health

College of Veterinary MedicineIowa State University

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• Trading partners acceptance of zoning

• OIE does not provide recognition of free status for ASF

• Extensive daily movement of pigs, including long distance interstate movement

• May be required for next stage of production

• May be required for harvest

• Need for extensive surveillance of all swine in the zone

• Diversity of swine production systems (Backyard to CAFOs)

• Extensive interstate movement of pork

• Potential for illegal feeding of uncooked garbage containing pork

www.Securepork.org

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Purpose of the SPS Business

Continuity Plan

• To demonstrate with a high degree of confidence that a herd in a Control Area is not infected with the foreign animal disease so that it can be permitted to move to another production system or to slaughter

• Does not maintain exports

Common Components of

Secure Food Supply Plans

• Voluntary pre-outbreak preparedness

• Biosecurity

• Surveillance

• Epidemiology questionnaires

• Movement permit guidance

• Risk assessments

SPS plan development funded by USDA APHIS and National Pork Board: http://www.securepork.org/

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Recommendations for importation from countries or zones not free from ASF

For fresh meat of domestic and captive wild pigs

Veterinary Authorities should require the presentation of an international veterinary certificate attesting that:

1. the entire consignment of fresh meat comes from animals which originated from herds in which surveillance in accordance with Articles 15.1.27. to 15.1.29. demonstrates that no case of ASF has occurred in the past three years. This period can be reduced to 12 months when the surveillance demonstrates that there is no evidence of tick involvement in the epidemiology of the infection. In addition, samples from a statistically representative number of animals were tested for ASF, with negative results;

2. the entire consignment of fresh meat comes from animals which have been slaughtered in an approved slaughterhouse/abattoir, have been subjected with favourable results to ante- and post-mortem inspections in accordance with Chapter 6.3.;

3. necessary precautions have been taken after slaughter to avoid contact of the fresh meat with any source of ASFV.

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To demonstrate with a high degree of confidence that pork from a participating packing plant does not contain ASF virus so that it can be exported according to OIE TAHC 15.1.14

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• Swine production system (ASF Exports Requirements Program):

• Implement biosecurity according to SPS plan prior to the outbreak

• Initiate surveillance at the beginning of an ASF outbreak

• Serology to demonstrate that ASF has not been in the herd

• Daily PCR testing of all dead animals to demonstrate lack of current infection

• Packing plants

• When outbreak begins, only accept pigs from premises participating in the ASF Export Requirements program

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• USDA Food Safety Inspection Service • Issue export certificates stating that the pork meets the requirements for OIE

TAHC Article 15.1.14

• USDA and Swine Industry• Work to encourage trading partners to accept pork meeting ASF Export

Requirements Program prior to an outbreak

• Trading partners• Would have to want to import U.S. pork

• Very little risk for ASF positive country to import pork meeting the ASF Exports Requirements Program