Since the beginning of the year, 41 cases of African swine fever (ASF) have been reported in Ukraine, with the average number of diseases among domestic pigs has declined. This was said by the head of the State Service of Ukraine for Food Safety and Consumer Protection, Volodymyr Lapa in an interview with Biz.Censor, АgroРolit.com reports.

Within the framework of the official visit of the delegation of the State Service of Ukraine for Food Safety and Consumer Protection to Ethiopia on 18-23 March, meetings were held with the Minister of State Animal Husbandry and Fisheries Dr. Miskar Mekonen and Director of the Department for Disease Prevention and Control Dr. Alemaehu Mekonen Anbesse. This is reported by the press service of State Service of Ukraine for Food Safety and Consumer Protection.

According to the information of the Main Directorate of the State Service of Ukraine for Food Safety and Consumer Protection in the Odesa region, on March 20, 2018 the disease and the death of pigs were registered in personal subsidiary plots of citizens in the Savran urban-type settlement and in the Polianetske village (Savran district, Odesa region), agronews.ua reports.

Delegates from more than 16 countries of Europe in the framework of the 9th meeting of the Permanent Working Group of Experts on African Swine Fever of the Baltic States and Eastern Europe under the auspices of GF-TADs met in Kyiv on March 22 to discuss cross-border cooperation aimed at the legal movement and control of the illegal movement of pigs and products made out of them. This is stated in the message of the State Service of Ukraine for Food Safety and Consumer Protection.

African swine fever (ASF) is registered in the Kyiv and Poltava regions.

This is reported by the press service of the State Service of Ukraine for Food Safety and Consumer Protection.

The government has streamlined regulations on licensing issues in the field of veterinary medicine. This is stipulated by the resolution "On Amendments to Point 16 of the List of Licensing Bodies," which was adopted on March 14, 2018 at a meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, the website of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine reports.

According to the information of the Main Directorate of the State Service of Ukraine for Food Safety and Consumer Protection in the Chernihiv region, in the personal subsidiary farm of the citizen Sholupets M. (Hrabivka village, Kulykivskyi district, Chernihiv region), disease and death of pigs were recorded on March 06, 2018.

Since April 4, 2018 unscrupulous producers of food, feed, by-products of animal origin will be severely sanctioned. This is written by infagro.com with reference to the head of the food safety department of the State Service of Ukraine for Food Safety and Consumer Protection Oksana Novokhatnia, AgroRolit.com reports.

Within two months the EU mission will publish a report on the assessment of the system of state control over the production of poultry meat. This is written on the website of the State Service of Ukraine for Food Safety and Consumer Protection.