APHIS Relaxes Import Restrictions on Live Animals From Parts of Argentina
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is loosening restrictions on importing live ruminants and swine from a region in Argentina, in a final rule that takes effect Oct. 28. The final rule recognizes the Patagonia South and Patagonia North B regions as free of rinderpest and foot-and-mouth disease. But APHIS is not completely getting rid of import restrictions on live swine and ruminants from Patagonia because of the region’s proximity to countries that are affected by the diseases, it said.
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(Federal Register 08/29/14)