The National Center for Disease Combating (CNCB) was convened on Tuesday, March 11, 2025, following the recent appearance of an outbreak in Hungary. Several measures have been arranged, among them, transport prohibitions and restrictions for certain products.
Authorities met on Tuesday, March 11, 2025, adopting more photo measures: FB/ANSVSA
The National Veterinary and Food Safety Authority (ANSVSA) convened, on Tuesday, a meeting of the National Center for Disease Combating, as a result of a confirmation of a Hungarian fiber outbreak and a similar outbreak in Germany in January, at the end of which several measures were communicated. They aim to protect the zootechnical sector in Romania, taking into account the additional risks generated by the elimination of customs controls as a result of Romania’s entry into the Schengen area, the authorities announced. The measures are to be put into practice by the institutions with responsibilities in the control of diseases: ANSVSA, DSVSA, the Romanian Customs Authority, more through the Border Police, the Romanian Police and the Romanian Gendarmerie, the Local Police. They are also co -opted in the prevention and control plan operators in the biungulated holdings.
Ship -prohibited transport from Hungary to Romania
The first of the measures is the prohibition of transport from Hungary to Romania. This is the traffic of trucks that carry live animals (cattle, sheep, goats, pigs), horses, fodder, straw, compost and manure.
Also, it is forbidden to enter Romania of several types of products from Hungary and Slovakia (the area of restrictions according to the provisions of the European Commission), respectively:
• Fresh meat (refrigerated or frozen) from biungulated animals.
• meat products from biungulated animals that have not been properly treated to neutralize the virus virus (thermally prepared products are accepted).
• Spot milk.
• Milk products for which an appropriate treatment for neutralizing the virus virus has not been provided.
• Milk raw material for which it cannot be proved that it comes from negatively tested animals for aphthous fever in the last 24 hours before shipment.
• Biological material, semen and sub -products of animal origin.
• Companies that have processing contracts for processing must notify the county DSVSA within 24 hours from the publication of this decision, with a deliveries graph that will be sent DSVSA county.
Inspections in animal farms and additional disinfection and disinsection measures
Another category of measures concerns the animal farms from us in the country. Thus, all animal farms that received live animals from Hungary and Slovakia will be inspected after February 1, 2025, and depending on the findings will be taken to establish the epidemiological status of the farm.
The disinfection and disinsection measures will also be intensified in the animal breeding units and on the means of transport entering or leaving these farms, the measures to be applied until the restrictions imposed as a result of the diagnosis of aphthous fever.
“In this way, ANSVSA asks the economic operators in Romania involved in the activity of trade with ruminants to pay maximum attention to the instructions transmitted by ANSVSA through the county DSVSA, to protect their staff from this disease. Any suspicion of disease must be notified in the shortest time DSVSA county.
These measures are essential for protecting the Romanian zootechnical sector and preventing the spread of aphthous fever on the territory of the country ”, The ANSVSA representatives specify.
Aphthous fever is a very contagious viral disease that affects cattle, goats, sheep and pigs. It is manifested by fever, the development of blisters filled with liquid at the mouth and limbs, inadequacy, anorexia, dry nose. The main way of transmission is by direct contact with the animals, it is shown on the ANSVSA website. The disease does not present a risk to humans.
