Indonesia (12): livestock, spread, control

Date: Sun 10 Jul 2022
Source: CNBC Indonesia [in Indonesian, machine trans., edited]
https://www.cnbcindonesia.com/news/20220710142458-4-354425/simak-begini-aturan-baru-penanganan-hewan-terinfeksi-pmk


The Task Force for Handling Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) added an article to the Circular Letter (SE) of the FMD Task Force No. 3.2022, to ensure that the traffic of livestock and their products is safe from FMD, as well as to guarantee legal certainty for business actors of livestock and their derivative products.

The added provisions are:

• Green Zone: positive animals must be destroyed and then buried.
• Yellow Zone: positive animals must be conditionally slaughtered at the Slaughterhouse (RPH). Specifically, the head, offal, skin, and feet must be buried.
• Red Zone: positive animals must be isolated by considering the condition of the animal and/or conditional slaughter at the abattoir. Specifically, the head, offal, skin, and feet must be buried.

"In principle, animal health in handling FMD is the responsibility of the entire community, breeders, distributors, RPH officers, traders, to consumers," said Spokesperson for the PMK Handling Task Force Wiku Adisasmito in a written statement for the week starting [10 Jul 2022].

Meanwhile, <siagapmk.id> noted, the spread of FMD cases in the country is increasingly widening. As of the week of [10 Jul 2022] (at 14.30 WIB), there were 336 887 livestock sick due to infection with FMD, 116 717 animals have recovered, 2936 animals were conditionally slaughtered, and the number of dead animals increased to 2128.

The spread extends to 239 districts/cities in 21 infected provinces. It is recorded that the vaccination has reached 421 787 livestock [see comment].

In addition to adding provisions for handling animals detected by FMD, the Circular also stipulates that, in the midst of an FMD outbreak, traffic control is not only carried out on live livestock but also covers processed products, frozen or fresh, which include carcasses, fresh meat, offal, heads, tails, feet, fresh milk, semen produced after the FMD outbreak, embryos produced after the FMD outbreak, eggs produced after the FMD outbreak, wool, raw leather, bristle, animal hair, bones, horns, nails, and teeth/fangs that have not met the technical requirements and/or inactivation of the FMD virus.

Animal products susceptible to FMD originating from abroad are allowed to be transported to all zones/regions, after being subjected to animal product quarantine measures and decontamination treatment.

To control the traffic of animals susceptible to FMD, a number of provisions are stipulated including:

• Traffic in animals and animal products susceptible to FMD is not permitted to enter or leave the province of Bali, unless coming from abroad with complete administrative documents
• Animals and animal products susceptible to FMD are not allowed to enter the provinces of East Nusa Tenggara and South Sulawesi, and are not allowed to leave the provinces of East Java and Central Java
• Traffic is permitted from Green Zone islands to Red Zone islands, and/or to Green Zone islands with strict Biosecurity measures (disinfection and decontamination), possessing Animal Health Certificate/Veterinary Certificate documents for animals and animal products, documentation of laboratory test results using the ELISA and/or RT-PCR method with negative results for animals, and subject to quarantine measures
• No traffic from a Red Zone island to a Green Zone island, or to a Red Zone island unless the animal comes from a farm with strict Biosecurity Safeguards implementation
• Animal products susceptible to FMD with a certificate originating from healthy livestock, have gone through a quarantine process, and are under strict biosecurity supervision under the supervision of a veterinarian.
• Traffic is not allowed from a Yellow Zone Regency/City to a Green Zone Regency/City, and from a Red Zone Regency/City to a Green Zone Regency/City, and to a Yellow Zone Regency/City.

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[Notably, the published rules do not address vaccination as a factor to be considered within the animal movement policy. This might change when the vaccination coverage improves, provided the efficacy of the applied vaccines is proven and population immunity established . - Mod.AS]