China News Service, March 8th. According to the website of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the General Office of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs issued a notice on the 8th to further crack down on illegal activities related to fake vaccines against African swine fever (hereinafter referred to as the notice).
The notice pointed out that all local animal husbandry and veterinary departments must effectively improve their political positions, effectively strengthen the supervision and management of the development, production, operation and use of African swine fever vaccine, resolutely prevent the risk of fake vaccines, and take the greatest determination and the most resolute measures to severely crack down on the control system. The sale and use of fake vaccines against African swine fever.
The notification requires strict implementation of the responsibilities of all parties.
Up to now, no country in the world has approved the African swine fever vaccine for marketing.
Vaccines that have not been approved for use under strict procedures are fake vaccines, which pose great safety risks.
All local animal husbandry and veterinary departments must effectively improve their political positions, effectively strengthen the supervision and management of the development, production, operation and use of African swine fever vaccines, resolutely prevent the risk of fake vaccines, and severely crack down on the production, sales and use with the greatest determination and the most resolute measures. False vaccines against African swine fever.
In accordance with the requirements of the "Opinions of the General Office of the State Council on Strengthening the Prevention and Control of African Swine Fever" (Guobanfa [2019] No. 31), promote the implementation of the territories where local people's governments at all levels assume the overall responsibility and the main responsible person is the first responsible person Management responsibilities; further consolidate the supervision responsibilities of relevant animal husbandry and veterinary units, clarify the responsible departments and the division of responsibilities; supervise and implement the main responsibilities of various practitioners such as scientific research units (including veterinary laboratories), veterinary drug production and operation enterprises, and pig farm households in accordance with the law , Carry out African swine fever vaccine research and development activities in accordance with laws and regulations, and consciously resist illegal activities.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs will continue to strengthen supervision and guidance, and notify the units that have not implemented the work in place.
The notice pointed out that it is necessary to conduct a comprehensive investigation and investigation.
In accordance with the requirements of the national major animal disease zoning prevention and control and the national major animal disease prevention and control video conference in 2021, all localities shall continue to maintain a high pressure and strict suppression of the African swine fever fake vaccine, immediately organize and carry out special investigations, and make full use of the "four nos". "Two straights" (no notice, no greeting, no report, no accompany reception, go straight to the grassroots level, go directly to the scene) to conduct unannounced investigations.
If clues of illegality are found, it is necessary to actively coordinate with public security and other departments to file a case for investigation and deal with the case, follow through to the end, thoroughly investigate the source, and severely punished.
In the inspection and investigation work, it is necessary to strictly implement the "Notice of the General Office of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs on Further Severely Cracking down on Illegal Development, Production and Operation of the Use of African Swine Fever Vaccine" (Nongbanmu [2020] No. 39), and detailed implementation of the development, The most stringent supervision is implemented for the supervision and inspection of production, operation, use and other links.
Finding cross-regional clues, clues to major issues, and matters requiring assistance from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs should be reported to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs in time.
Relevant provinces should increase the supervision of the legal development of African swine fever vaccine development, pilot production, clinical trials and other activities, and establish a supervision account to record in detail the information on the flow and use of seed drugs and pilot products, and supervise all clinical trials. Process to ensure biosafety.
The notice stated that it is necessary to effectively strengthen identification and testing.
All localities must carefully analyze and sort out the problem clues found in the investigation and investigation, and strengthen the identification and testing of artificial gene deletion strains in accordance with the "African Swine Fever Virus Epidemic Strains and Gene Deletion Strains Identification and Testing Specifications".
All local testing units must carry out identification tests for all positive samples of African swine fever virus found in daily monitoring, and if artificial gene deletion strains are found, they must report to the provincial animal husbandry and veterinary authority as soon as possible.
All provincial-level animal husbandry and veterinary departments should carry out traceability, fix evidence at the first time, file and investigate cases in a timely manner, and improve the effectiveness of supervision.
The China Animal Disease Prevention and Control Center and the China Animal Health and Epidemiology Center, which are responsible for the entry monitoring task of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, can not only monitor the samples of breeding, slaughter and harmless treatment, but also sample the pork sold on the market. Test, accurately record and report the source of samples, and carry out identification tests on all positive samples found in monitoring.
The notice also requires the continuous implementation of epidemiological investigations.
The Chinese Center for Animal Disease Prevention and Control and the Chinese Center for Animal Health and Epidemiology shall strengthen the epidemiological investigation of the "new strain" of African swine fever virus, adopt a variety of technical methods, timely and accurately grasp the relevant situation, organize consultations, research, judgment, and analysis Virus mutation and epidemic situation, and put forward targeted prevention and control recommendations.
It is necessary to strengthen technical guidance to local animal disease prevention and control agencies, improve detection capabilities, and ensure accurate detection.
The China Veterinary Drug Supervision Institute will increase the detection of live swine vaccines for African swine fever virus contamination to ensure the quality and safety of the vaccine; the Veterinary Drug Evaluation Center of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs should diagnose African swine fever serological products, identify epidemic strains and gene-deficient strains Products, implement emergency evaluation to meet testing needs.
The notice is clear and the punishment is severely dealt with.
All localities should further increase the punishment and punishment of illegal activities related to the fake vaccine of African swine fever, and strengthen the effective connection between administrative law enforcement and criminal justice. All cases suspected of constituting a crime and meeting the transfer conditions should be promptly transferred to the judicial organs for criminal responsibility in accordance with the law. Powerful deterrence.
It is necessary to make full use of administrative punishment measures and follow-up supervision measures.
The illegal scientific research institution shall be immediately ordered to stop relevant activities, and the relevant approval documents shall be revoked or revoked in accordance with the law. If the administrative license is obtained by fraud or other improper means, the relevant administrative license application shall not be accepted in accordance with the law within 3 years, and the illegal situation shall be notified to Science and Technology, Finance and other departments; for illegal scientific research personnel, urge their units to dismiss and expel them according to law, disapprove relevant project applications, and report relevant information to science and technology departments.
All illegal veterinary drug production and operation enterprises shall be fined according to the upper limit and their production and operation licenses shall be revoked, and their main persons in charge and directly responsible persons in charge shall not engage in veterinary drug production and operation activities for life.
The pigs positive for the African swine fever virus nucleic acid of illegal pig farms shall be handled in strict accordance with the "Animal Prevention Law" and the "African Swine Fever Epidemic Emergency Implementation Plan"; pigs that are detected as positive for the African swine fever virus antibody are considered Infected pigs shall not be issued a quarantine certificate, shall not be slaughtered, and shall not be slaughtered on the market; violations of laws and regulations by farmers shall be strictly investigated and dealt with in accordance with the law.