BAKU, Azerbaijan, May 6
Trend:
The Committee for Veterinary Control and Supervision of the Ministry of Agriculture of Kazakhstan and the Rosselkhoznadzor carried out work to remove the previously introduced temporary restrictions on mutual supplies of livestock products, Trend reports citing the Kazakh media.
In order to stabilize the situation with highly pathogenic bird flu into Russia, the import of products mentioned below from the North Kazakhstan, Akmola, Pavlodar, and Kostanay regions of Kazakhstan has been allowed:
- live bird;
- hatching eggs;
- poultry meat;
- finished meat products from poultry and all types of poultry products containing poultry processing products, except processed goods that ensures the destruction of bird flu, following the provisions of the OIE Terrestrial Animal Health Code;
- feed and feed additives for birds;
- second-hand equipment for keeping, slaughtering, and cutting birds.
Moreover, the transit of live birds from the North Kazakhstan, Akmola, Pavlodar, and Kostanay regions through the territory of Russian has been allowed.
The restrictions previously introduced due to Newcastle disease for the export from the Karaganda region to Russia of live poultry and hatching eggs, poultry meat, and all types of poultry products that have not undergone heat treatment, which guarantee the destruction of the Newcastle disease virus (under the provisions of Chapter 10.9 of the OIE Terrestrial Animal Health Code), feed and feed additives for poultry, second-hand equipment for keeping, slaughtering and cutting poultry, has also been lifted.
Transit of live birds from the specified area through Russia has been allowed.
Due to the stabilization of the pasteurellosis situation, restrictions on the import into Russia from the Karaganda region of all types of ruminants, pigs, as well as their genetic material and livestock products obtained from these species of animals that have not undergone heat treatment at 72°C for 30 and more minutes.
From Atyrau and Mangystau regions to the territory of Russia it is allowed to supply:
- live sheep and goats;
- products obtained from meat raw materials of sheep and goats;
- milk and dairy products;
- feed of animal origin;
- other raw materials and products obtained from the slaughter of sheep and goats;
- used equipment for keeping, slaughtering, and processing small ruminants.
At the same time, the ban on transit through the territory of Russia of live sheep and goats from the Atyrau and Mangistau regions was canceled.
To stabilize the situation with lumpy dermatitis, import of the products mentioned below from the Atyrau region to Russia has also been allowed:
- cattle, animals susceptible to lumpy dermatitis;
- products obtained from cattle, as well as susceptible animal species, without proper processing, ensuring the destruction of the lumpy skin disease virus;
- untreated leather raw materials obtained from the slaughter of cattle;
- genetic material of cattle;
- second-hand equipment for keeping and transporting cattle.
In order to stabilize the epizootic situation of African swine fever, it has been allowed to supply live pigs to Kazakhstan and transit through the territory of Kazakhstan from the Republic of Altai, Altai, and Krasnoyarsk regions, Novosibirsk, Kurgan, Chelyabinsk, and Tyumen regions.
The restrictive measures, which were previously introduced due to the difficult situation with bird flu, on the import of live poultry and poultry products into Kazakhstan from the Kursk, Oryol, Voronezh, Chelyabinsk, Omsk, Tyumen, Kurgan, and Tomsk regions, as well as from the Republic of Tatarstan, have also been canceled.
In addition, the export to Kazakhstan of live poultry, hatching eggs, down and feathers, poultry meat and all types of poultry products, feed and feed additives for poultry, as well as second-hand equipment for keeping, slaughtering, and cutting birds from the Saratov region, is allowed. The ban on supplies was in force due to the epizootic situation for Newcastle disease in the region.