Swine fever in Spain, live
12/01/2025
Facua emphasizes security but asks to monitor prices
Facua-Consumers in Action has called for consumer peace of mind regarding the food safety of pork products in the face of confirmed cases of African swine fever (ASF) in Spain, but has expressed concern about a possible increase in prices in distribution. For Facua, the main concern is that We determine manufacturers and establishments to use this health situation to apply price increasesa fact that, in his opinion, “occurs in certain crisis situations.” Its spokesperson, Rubén Sánchez, asked the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food this Monday to monitor the evolution of prices at origin and at points of sale to analyze whether “unjustified increases” are applied at any stage of the food chain.
12/01/2025
Seven countries block new consignments of pork
Seven countries have blocked new export health certificates for Spanish pork products after the appearance, on Friday, of African Swine Fever (ASF) in wild boars in Catalonia. The information note from the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food details that AArgentina and the United Kingdom are joined by the blocking of new items by Canada, Colombia, Korea, Malaysia and Mexico. Specifically, certificates on live pigs for breeding or production, chilled or frozen pork, semen, blood and blood products, pork rind, processed animal protein, natural casings, dehydrated pork skin, pancreas, pork collagen and gelatin are blocked. Currently, more than 120 export certificates from nearly 40 countries remain blocked for products for which they do not allow the regionalization of the problem, that is, they veto entry from the entire Spanish territory and not only from the affected Catalan area.
12/01/2025
CyL would intensify wild boar hunting to prevent transmission
The Junta de Castilla y León will intensify wild boar hunting to reduce the population, especially in pig areas, in order to avoid the transmission of the disease in the event that the virus were detected in the Communitysomething that has not yet happened. This measure, which will be carried out within the Board’s Wild Boar Management Plan, is in addition to others for prevention, monitoring and action against African Swine Fever, which will be intensified due to the positive cases detected in wild boars in the province of Barcelona.
12/01/2025
“Do not leave the six kilometer radius”
The Military Emergency Unit (UME) moved this Monday morning 117 of its troops from the Madrid and Zaragoza base to join the containment work that the Generalitat has been carrying out since Friday in the fight to contain the outbreak of African swine fever detected in the Collserola mountain range that surrounds the north of Barcelona. Device sources have explained to 20 minutes that meetings have been held during the morning to establish the troops necessary to contain the disease and prevent its spread: “The priority is to neutralize the plaguethat it does not leave the six-kilometer radius” of ground zero where the wild boars were found dead with the virus.
12/01/2025
she asks to appear in Parliament
The president of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, has requested to appear in Parliament to report on the management of swine feveras explained by Government sources this Monday. Illa has been on an institutional trip to Mexico since Saturday, which has provoked criticism from Junts, which has stated that the president is “absent” in this crisis, and from ERC, which has asked him to return to Catalonia now and not wait until Friday. These two groups have also requested their appearance in Parliament throughout the morning. The PSC, at the same time, has stressed that Illa is doing “exhaustive monitoring” of the crisis and that it is in “permanent contact” with the counselor of Agriculture, Òscar Ordeig, and with the counselor of the Interior, Núria Parlon.
12/01/2025
Several countries have already announced the blocking or temporary suspension of exports of pork from Spain after an outbreak of African swine fever was detected in Collserola (Barcelona). Specifically, markets such as Japan, Mexico or Taiwanhave chosen to completely suspend imports of Spanish pork, while China has blocked those of 12 companies in the province of Barcelona. In addition, the disease has also caused the interruption of about 120 health certificates export of different pork products to nearly 40 countries. [Lea la crónica de Mari Latorre]
12/01/2025
Catalonia sees it possible that it arrived in contaminated sausage
He counselor of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Food of the Generalitat, Òscar Ordeig, has said that it is possible that African swine fever (ASF) reached Spain via road due to a contaminated sausage that wild boars could have ingestedalthough it is not confirmed. In a press conference this Monday to report on the focus of this animal disease, Ordeig pointed out that, for now, the virus has not entered the farms nor are there any new confirmed cases among wild boars. Thus, there are only two cases confirmed last Friday and eight that are suspicious but that the reference laboratory of the Ministry of Agriculture has not yet confirmed, all of this out of 40 animals analyzed.
12/01/2025
Deployment of the EU Veterinary Emergency Team
The European Commission announced this Monday that it will deploy the European Union Veterinary Emergency Team to Catalonia to “provide support to national and local authorities” in order to contain the outbreak of African swine fever detected in the Collserola Natural Park. The Community Executive has stated that “monitors very closely” the situation: “Spain must introduce the measures established by EU legislation. We are prepared to help with whatever is necessary if the impact of the disease increases”.
