date:May 05, 2014
a large scale.
The ban would chiefly concern animal feed, with exports mainly coming from Canada, Angot said. He had no immediate estimate. EU sources said that to their knowledge there were no live U.S. pigs imported into the 28-member bloc.
Animal feed is suspected to have been a way the disease has been transmitted in the United States.
Blood products such as pig plasma are commonly used around the world in the diets of piglets after they have been weaned - a practice that can spread the d