Latest news on African classical swine fever: increase the responsibility of African classical swine fever prevention on e-commerce platform, draft to be adopted

Selling unquarantined meat through e-commerce platforms is not just a simple act of removing from shelves in the future. the Council of Agriculture has drawn up a draft amendment to the Prevention and Control of Animal Infectious Diseases Ordinance, adding 38 articles 3. If the e-commerce platform does not add epidemic prevention warnings, save the information of publishers, traffickers and subscribers, restrict access to, browse or remove relevant web pages, you will be fined a maximum fine of NT $150000. At present, it is waiting for the Executive Yuan to discuss and approve it.

The epidemic prevention regulations are more stringent, mainly because the epidemic situation of African classical swine fever in neighboring countries is serious, there is no obvious sign of improvement, and there are still many cases of people illegally carrying meat through customs. Huang Jincheng, vice chairman of the Council of Agriculture, said, "No matter it is (African swine fever) epidemic area or non-epidemic area, you cannot bring meat products into the country, and Europe and the United States should not bring them back. We have been strengthening publicity, but people still like to bring meat products into the country." There has been no significant reduction in the number of discarded containers. "

Amend the law to strengthen the responsibility of e-commerce platform operators for failure to comply with epidemic prevention regulations with a maximum fine of 150000 yuan

In order to prevent people from selling quarantine objects imported without quarantine on the online shopping platform, and to increase the responsibility of e-commerce, the Council of Agriculture added Article 38 (3) to the regulations. The draft amendment stipulates that Internet platforms should add necessary warnings about publicity, prevention and quarantine, preserve the personal data of publishers, traffickers or subscribers, and restrict access to, browsing or removal of relevant web pages, and the penalties are also amended at the same time. Those who violate the above regulations may impose a fine of not less than NT $30,000 and not more than NT $150000. At present, the progress of promoting the revision of the law has been approved by the laws and regulations Review Committee of the Executive Yuan, and after it has been submitted to the Executive Yuan for approval, it will be sent to the Legislative Yuan to amend the law.

Jincheng said that the Prevention and Quarantine Bureau has always had a team of manpower to monitor the network to see if anyone is selling unquarantined meat on the website, whether there is a record of transactions, and whether there are any express deliveries. According to statistics, from November last year to April this year, e-commerce blocked or removed a total of 6.66 million items from unquarantined animal and plant products, and the number of suspended sellers was 230,230.

The positive rate of African classical swine fever virus in abandoned boxes of Chinese meat at the airport remains high.

The Council of Agriculture is of the view that border control should be strengthened because according to the latest information from the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), the outbreak of classical swine fever in Africa continues to occur in several countries in Europe and Africa, as well as China, Mongolia, Vietnam and Cambodia in Asia. The slaughterhouses in Hong Kong were also in the middle of May, showing that the epidemic had spread and the risk of the disease being introduced was extremely high.

Statistics on the number of meat abandoned or illegally carried by tourists, from August 27, 2007 to May 16, 108, 1625 tests have been completed and 59 positive cases (including 57 from Chinese mainland and 2 from Vietnam). The positive rate from Chinese mainland is still high. In 107, 1 case (0.6%) in October, 2 cases (1.1%) in November, 4 cases (2.2%) in December, 11 cases in January (6.2%), 11 cases in February (8.0%), 5 cases in March (3.9%), 12 cases in April (7.6%), 11 cases in May (7.5%), the figures confirm that the risk of African classical swine fever transmitted by Chinese mainland pork products can not be ignored.

The one who likes to bring meat home most is not others, but the Taiwanese themselves. According to the statistics of the Council of Agriculture, a total of 1385 cases of illegal entry of animals and plants were fined from December 14, 107 to May 26, 108. There were 537 cases of Chinese nationality, 481 cases of Chinese nationality, 85 cases of Vietnamese nationality, 40 cases of Filipino nationality and 39 cases of Japanese nationality. Chinese and Chinese tourists accounted for 73.5% of the total fines.

The GPS equipment for live pigs and carcass transport vehicles will be completed by the end of June.

As for the progress of epidemic prevention work of domestic pig farmers, there are only 33 farms left, including 11 in Hsinchu County, 4 in Miaoli County, 4 in Nantou County, 3 in Taichung City and 3 in Changhua County. 21 of the 33 games have been fined, and 12 have not yet decided whether to leave grazing or turn to feed to raise pigs. Jincheng stressed that the inspection and guidance will continue to be completed, and those who have already been punished can also be punished continuously.

The installation of 1425 live pig and carcass transport vehicles GPS has been completed by the end of May, and it is expected that all of them will be completed by the end of June. This is a necessary work for the establishment of a retrospective mechanism for the epidemic. Vehicles can be traced if an epidemic breaks out in the future. If there is an outbreak in the future, it can be traced back to which livestock farms and slaughterhouses the transport vehicles have run through, so as to control the epidemic earlier.