Prevention and control of risks, security and realization of "two guarantees"

In 2014, veterinary departments at all levels actively prevented and controlled the risk of animal diseases around the objective task put forward by the leading party group of the Ministry of Agriculture of "making efforts to ensure that there are no major regional animal epidemics and major incidents on the quality and safety of animal products". Strict supervision of food safety of animal origin, and veterinary work has achieved positive results.

The animal epidemic situation is generally stable. As of December 4, there have been only 4 cases of type A foot-and-mouth disease, 2 cases of type O foot-and-mouth disease and 4 cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza in poultry. There has been no outbreak of Asian type I foot-and-mouth disease in China for 67 consecutive months. After the epidemic situation of small ruminants was re-introduced into China from abroad, it was quickly and effectively controlled. At the 82nd International Congress of the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), China was recognized by the OIE as a country with negligible risk of mad cow disease and a country without African horse plague.

Solid progress has been made in the supervision and control of food safety of animal origin. From January to November 2014, 10.4 billion livestock and poultry were quarantined and 5.6 billion livestock and poultry were slaughtered and quarantined. All the diseased animals detected were treated innocuously. The "opinions of the General Office of the State Council on establishing a harmless treatment mechanism for sick and dead livestock and poultry" was formally promulgated, and the pilot work of harmless treatment of sick and dead livestock and poultry was carried out in an all-round way, and more than 20 million sick and dead pigs were treated on a large-scale farm, an increase of more than 70 percent over the same period last year. In the first three quarters of this year, a total of 10506 batches of veterinary drugs were tested nationwide, of which 10030 batches were qualified, with a qualified rate of 95.5%, an increase of 1.6 percentage points over the same period last year.

Over the past year, the national veterinary system has conscientiously organized and implemented the 2014 national compulsory immunization program for major animal diseases, surveillance and epidemiological investigations to effectively prevent and control common diseases such as H7N9 influenza in animals and diarrhea in piglets. At the same time, strengthen veterinary health supervision and law enforcement, promote the "national animal health supervision" action of 'improving quality and strong ability', and strengthen the supervision and control of more than 1.24 million large-scale breeding farms (breeding areas) and nearly 15000 slaughterhouses (farms). We will implement the measures for the Administration of over-the-counter drugs for Animal prescription drugs, deepen the "linkage of inspection and fight", severely crack down on illegal activities of veterinary drugs, and carry out actions to standardize the labels and instructions of veterinary drug products. All localities actively implement the main responsibility of pig slaughtering enterprises, strengthen the risk assessment of pig slaughtering quality and safety, improve the quality and safety supervision mechanism of the slaughtering industry, severely crack down on various illegal and criminal acts such as private slaughtering, slaughtering sick and dead livestock and poultry, water injection or other substances, clean up and close a total of 1387 unqualified designated pig slaughterhouses, investigate and deal with 3386 illegal slaughtering cases, and supervise and spot check 7.8 million samples of "clenbuterol" in slaughtering links. It effectively ensures the production safety of aquaculture, the quality safety of animal products, public health safety and ecological security.