The Department of Agriculture of the Philippines has ordered a temporary ban on pork imports from Germany. It was discovered a pork import shipment from Germany was mixed with 250 kilos of pork from Poland, a country with an African swine fever (ASF) epidemic.
The import ban involved only one German exporter, but the Bureau of Animal Industries said the incident was enough to justify the temporary suspension of the accreditation of all German foreign meat establishments to export meat to the Philippines.
