ASSICA: Important result that comes at a difficult time for the sector
On 20 September, the European Commission's PAFF (Plants, Animals, Food and Feed) Committee met in Brussels and, with the unanimous vote of all the Member States, decided to lift the last restrictive measures still in force in Sardinia on account of African Swine Fever - which limited the possibility of marketing Sardinian pig products outside the island - recognising that the disease had been eradicated after more than 40 years.
Arriving in Sardinia in 1978, the African Swine Fever virus circulated on the island for over 40 years, until 2019, when the last case was found. For a long time, efforts to solve the problem were in vain but, in 2014, the establishment of the ‘Project Unit’ represented a turning point that led to the disappearance of the ‘Sardinian’ virus (genotype I) in four years.
‘Today's decision by PAFF is news we have been waiting for for years,’ said Davide Calderone, Director of ASSICA - Associazione Industriali delle Carni e dei Salumi.
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