Agriculture Minister Eto Thoroughly heat-treat food at CSF (pork cholera) on January 24 at 12:28

The Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (METI) said that the swine cholera, a CSF infectious disease of pigs in Okinawa Prefecture, which could have been transmitted through poorly heat-treated foods, had to give pig farmers a proper heat treatment. I asked.

The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said that CSF, which became infected in Okinawa this month, was given food left over from pigs containing meat products that were not heat-treated enough and could be infected through this food. I know it.

In this regard, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Eto told reporters after a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday that "waste food fed internationally is considered to be one of the main routes of CSF invasion."

After that, they asked the farmers themselves to check whether the standard of 70 degrees or more specified by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries was at least 30 minutes at 80 degrees, or 3 minutes at 80 degrees, and instructed prefectures to provide thorough guidance. "We asked pig farmers to heat them properly if they were to feed them with the leftovers.

The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries believes that proper heat treatment can prevent not only CSF but also ASF, the so-called African swine fever, which spreads overseas.