No FMD infection in northern Colombia

Introduction: [no FMD infection in northern Colombia] international FMD organization announced recently that there is no FMD infection in the northern Caribbean coast of Colombia and Antioquia Province, and meat exports will resume from June The official FMD free certificate will not be issued until the plenary session in Paris on May 29 Colombia's minister of agriculture stressed the importance of this decision for the development of Colombian animal husbandry Colombia plans to export $860000 worth of 5000 livestock fed with refined feed to Mexico this year, as well as $50 million worth of beef to Iran, Iraq, China, Japan and EU countries The agriculture minister said Colombia has the ability to provide red meat to Europe and address the lack of meat supply in Europe due to "mad cow disease" In order to prevent foot-and-mouth disease, the Colombian government has invested more than 30 million US dollars in the past three years China feed industry information network r8r