date:Jul 10, 2014
Switzerland is to ban imports of live pigs and pork from several EU countries in a bid to stop an African swine fever outbreak from reaching the country.
Imports from Bulgaria and Romania and some parts of Latvia and Croatia will be banned as of Wednesday, Swiss food safety authorities said on Tuesday.
All live pigs and boars, their meat, sperm, eggs and embryos will be covered by the ban, according to the decree.
Posing a lethal threat to commercial pig farms, African swine fever has spread