Dubai, Jun 16th, 2011 (WAM)--Dr. Rashid Ahmed bin Fahad, Minister of Environment and Water today issued a ministerial decision, lifting the ban on import of live animals with cloven hooves, their products and processed animal offal from Egypt.
The decision follows information received from the World Organisation for Animal Health, stating that Egypt is now free from Food and Mouth Disease (FMD). The resolution stated that all the consignments should be subjected to the veterinary quarantine and animal welfare regulations in force in the country. Meanwhile, the minister also issued today, two decisions to temporarily ban the importation of all types of live animals with cloven hooves, their meat products and wastes from Botswana and Kazakhstan amid reports of the FMD there. The two resolutions have been issued based on the reports from the World Organisation for Animal Health on the registered cases of the FMD in the two countries. The resolutions exempted the animal products subjected to heat and waste treatment in accordance with the methods recommended in the Code of the World Organisation for Animal Health. The treatment methods must be included in the health certificate attached to the consignment. They also stipulated that the meat imports should come from the slaughterhouses under the supervision of an Islamic centre endorsed by the United Arab Emirates. The resolutions prevent crossing of live animals with cloven hooves, their meat products and offal originating from Botswana and Kazakhstan through the territory of the UAE.Copyright Emirates News Agency (WAM) 2011.
