The Philippine however, so far is swine flu free. It has banned importation of pork and pork products from countries who have reported the epidemic, for fear of infecting our pig farms.
However, a news article reveals that some of the imported pork from China was contaminated with Swine flu.
MANILA, Philippines – The Bureau of Customs (BOC) has intercepted a number of pork products from Hong Kong and China at Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) in between June 19 to 28. ...an accident? or someone trying to sell the infected pork to the Philippines because they figure that the poor Philippines won't notice? (or maybe, alas, that they can give a small gift to officials to look the other way).
China is one of the 19 countries from where entry of pork and pork-based products are banned.
From a total of 400 samples that BAI examined, 34 tested positive of ASF and these products could have caused infestation in the country’s hog industry if they were not intercepted.
But the Philippines is not completely corrupt, so this shipment was discovered, resulting in the government warning to stores to discard any pork products they have that originated in China.
But it's not just China: Someone in Germany knows that the Philippines has banned pork from countries with swine flu, so figured they could send us pork from Poland, which does have swine flu.
Germany was the latest addition to the list of countries where entry of pork products to the Philippines was banned. Though there were no reports yet of ASF-infestation in Germany, the Philippines included it in the list after a German company exported pork products to the Philippines along with some 250 kilograms of pork from ASF-hit Poland...
So Germany is now on the list of countries whose pork products are banned.
the German company claimed it was due to "human error".
and of course, we believe the Germans. They wouldn't lie about it, would they?
Sigh. Et tu, Germany? we thought we could trust you.
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