IN BRIEF : U.S. Set to Ease Pork Import Curbs
The Agriculture Department proposed today to reduce import restrictions on shipments of British swine, pork and pork products.
James W. Glosser, administrator of the department’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, said the proposal is a result of Great Britain’s eradication of hog cholera, a contagious and sometimes fatal disease of swine. He said no case of the disease has been reported since August, 1987.
The restriction currently requires that pork and pork products be cooked, heated or cured and dried before being shipped from Britain to ensure that disease organisms were destroyed.
Under the proposed rule change, small quantities of untreated pork and pork products for personal consumption will be allowed to enter the United States from Britain. However, commercial shipments must originate only from plants which meet U.S. requirements.
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