S'pore resumes pig imports<\/p>\n
SINGAPORE (AFP): Singapore on Monday resumed live pig imports
\nfrom Indonesia, but a ban on neighboring Malaysia remained in
\nforce, after an outbreak of a fatal pig-borne virus, officials
\nsaid.<\/p>\n
The Primary Production Department (PPD) said the first
\nshipment of 810 pigs arrived from a Singapore government-approved
\nfarm in Pulau Bulan in Indonesia early Monday under stringent
\nconditions.<\/p>\n
The pigs were inspected by Singapore authorities prior to
\nshipment and again on arrival, the PPD said.<\/p>\n
Singapore banned the import of live pigs last month under
\nemergency measures to rid the island of encephalitis viruses
\nwhich killed one Singaporean and about 100 people in Malaysia.<\/p>\n
Singapore officials said that, for food safety and hygiene
\nreasons, the meat would be chilled immediately after slaughter at
\na new abattoir.<\/p>\n
Refrigerated trucks will then carry the carcasses to
\ngovernment-approved meat cutting plants and then to wet markets.
\nStallholders selling pork have been asked to install chillers.<\/p>",
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