Oct 1st, 2024
2 mins
Immediate measures have been introduced to protect pig farmers and industry from an African swine fever (ASF) outbreak.
ASF is a highly contagious and deadly disease in pigs and wild boar that can be transmitted through infected meat, but poses no risk to human health. The new safeguarding rules will help protect UK livestock by mitigating its spread across the border to the UK.
To safeguard the UK’s pig and farming industries, personal imports of pork and pork products from the EEA (European Economic Area), the Faroe Islands, Greenland and Switzerland have been banned from Friday 27th September, unless such products are manufactured and packaged to EU commercial standards and weigh less than a maximum of 2kg.
