At a round table meeting on regional concepts on sanitary and phytosanitary measures and assistance in the export of agricultural products the head of the USBA, Iryna Palamar, noted that one of the key reasons why the situation with the ASF became critical was the reform of the State Veterinary and Phytosanitary Service of Ukraine in 2014, which had controlled the spread of ASF and fought with the problem whe it had only originated.