Mexico City.- The Mexican Association of Meat Producers (AMEG) celebrated the decision of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to gradually reopen the southern ports for the importation of cattle, bison and living horses from Mexico, as of July 7.
He indicated that the measure is the result of a close coordination between health authorities of both countries, and represents a significant advance in the reactivation of the binational trade of bovine cattle standing after the temporary closure derived from the detection of chestful worm in Mexico.
He added that the reopening of ports such as Douglas (AZ), Columbus (NM), and soon Laredo (TX), reflects the confidence of USDA and endorses its support for the sanitary guidelines established to guarantee the traceability, safety and health of livestock in transit to the United States.
“We meat producers endorse our commitment to collaborate with the authorities, having the necessary capacities and infrastructure to detect, isolate, treat and cure, within our pens, to any animal that is infected with the larva of the barely worm,” said the president of the organization, Jesús Brígido Colonel, according to a statement.
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The AMEG pointed out that the most efficient way to combat the plague of the borer worm is definitively attacking the medium of infection, which is the fly that puts its larvae in the open wounds of any hot blood animal.
Therefore, the association considered that the measures published last week by the United States, on the installation of a sterile flies producing plant, is an effective step to achieve its eradication in the coming years.
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