Sausages from China have been detected with African Swine Fever organisms by officials in Japan and South Korea.
And China has still not managed to contain the disease. It’s latest measure is a ban on transportation of live hogs out of Guangdong province.
Japan has tightened quarantine operations at airports and seaports, especially from those traveling from areas infected with the disease.
Regular meat inspections detected African swine fever in vacuum-packed pork sausage being illegally brought into Japan by a person coming from Beijing, according to Reutersthis week.
There is a ban on importing pork meat and products from China, yet this is the third case of the disease being detected in pork products from China.
It was unlikely the pork was infectious, as it was vacuum packed and heat treated, Japanese ministry officials said, but more testing is being done in Tokyo.
