THE City Veterinary Office is set to hold a conference to meet with shipping firms, supermarket management, meat processing companies and government agencies as part of Cagayan de Oro City’s campaign against African Swine Fever (ASF).
This after the City Mayor Oscar Moreno issued Executive Order no. 172 banning all pork products from Luzon and other areas affected with ASF.
The veterinarian office will discuss with the shipping companies and supermarkets the executive order’s implementing rules and regulations which will guide the city in implementing the policies.
On September 27, after the Anti-ASF task force came up with a consensus to recommend the issuance of “an executive order covering the temporary total ban on the entry of hogs, all fresh/frozen pork meat and processed pork products from Luzon, and other identified ASF-affected areas in the country and abroad.”
Moreno said the temporary total ban will cover live hogs, pork, canned goods from pork such as pork meat loaf, pork sausages, and pork mechado, including processed pork products such as bacon, hams, pork tocino, longganiza, pork hot dogs, and others.
Pork siopao and pork siomai products from Luzon are also banned.
Moreno said the ban will continue until the national government declares the country ASF-free.