date:May 27, 2014
Russia has forbidden the supply of all pork products from mainland Ukraine to Crimea. The news was announced at a press conference in Simferopol, by Mykola Polyushkin, Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of the peninsula Mykola Polyushkin.
He added that the Russian authorities are afraid of African swine fever (ASF) from mainland Ukraine, which in the opinion of Russian veterinary watchdog Rosselhoznadzor is still circulating in the country among wild boars.
The minister noted that at the mom