JAKARTA: The Indonesian city of Batam is conducting a citywide inspection on pig farms and pig sties, after a consignment of live pigs exported from the city to neighbouring Singapore was found to be infected with the African swine fever virus.
Mr Mardanis, the chief of Batam’s food security and agriculture agency, said that last month’s discovery of the African swine fever virus prompted authorities to stop all live pigs and carcasses from leaving Pulau Bulan.
Carcasses as well as live pigs supplied from the Indonesian island were subsequently removed from slaughterhouses across Singapore.of live pigs from Pulau Bulan, which constitutes around 15 per cent of the country’s pork supply. Mr Mardanis said the island’s biosecurity measures have been tightened while pigs suspected of carrying the virus have been culled. Movement of people and goods to and from the island, he continued, has also been tightly monitored.
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