80% of the respondent boars did not note the worsening of the epizootic situation on ASF since the war and did not refuse to cooperate with pig farms because of a suspected outbreak of ASF in them. In addition, only 15% of respondents noticed an increase in spontaneous meat trade over the past year, and the increase in such sales, according to the processors, ranges from 15% to 50%.
Although most of the surveyed slaughterhouses and meat processing plants do not believe that now the risk of ASF spread is higher than in previous years, the operators do not weaken anti-epizootic measures. In particular, they control that only identified animals are slaughtered, transport animals only in specialized company-owned vehicles that are washed and disinfected after each trip. Attention to such preventive measures explains the fact that in the opinion of the majority of respondents (45%) the main reason for the spread of ASF in Ukraine is the violation of biosafety rules.
A detailed overview of the antiepizootic measures taken by the representatives of domestic slaughterhouses, as well as the analysis of the results of the survey of other Ukrainian pork market participants, together with the recommendations based on it, will be published in the final report of the study.
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