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Imports of pork from France will be further restricted by
USDA, effective immediately, as a result of an African swine
fever outbreak in that country’s Pyrenees Mountains. The
disease is one of the world's most destructive swine illnesses.
Officials of USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection
.v "vice (APHIS) said that listing France as an infected
cuuntiy will limit imports of French pork primarily to
products that are canned, fully cooked and hermetically
sealed. Cured and dried pork products still will be admitted,
bat only for further USDA-approved heat processing. Im
ports of live swine and fresh, chilled or frozen pork were
already prohibited because of the presence of other livestock
diseases such as foot-and-mouth disease and hog cholera.
Other countries that are listed as infected with African
swine fever are Spain, Portugal, Cuba and all nations in
Africa.
The disease outbreak was first reported Jan. 15,1974, on a
farm near Hasparren in the Pyrenees Atlantique Depart
ment (state), according to information received this month
by APHIS officials from the Office of International
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Pork Imports
Epizootics, Paris, France. Outbreaks were also reported at
four other-locations in southwestern France.
APHIS officials said restrictions on the shipment of swine,
pork and pork products to the United States are necessary to
prevent spread of the disease to this country, where it could
have a disastrous effect on the U. S. swine industry. A 1971
outbreak of African swine fever in Cuba resulted in the death
of 33,000 swine within a three-month period.
African swine fever is a highly contagious virus disease
affecting swine only. Its symptoms, which are nearly
identical to those of acute hog cholera, include high fever, red
blotches on the skin, internal bleeding, collapse of the animal
and nearly 100 percent mortality.
Eradication is achieved only by destruction of all infected
or exposed swine, quarantines on all farms in the vicinity of
outbreaks, survey of swine herds, and cleaning and disin
fection of all infected or exposed premises.
Notice of the APHIS action on French imports will be
published in the Federal Register March 26.
SCSA Meeting
“Land Use: Persuasion or
Regulation?” will be the
theme of the 29th annual
meeting of the Soil Con
servation ‘ Society of
America, August 11-14, 1974,
in Syracuse, New York.
Speakers during the
meeting’s general sessions
will- debate the merits of
achieving wise use of the
land resources
through education and-or
legislative and ad
ministrative regulation. One
general session wilT be a
joint meeting with members
of the Conservation
Education Association who
are holding their annual
conference in Syracuse the
same week.
A series of concurrent
technical sessions arranged
by the Society’s 10 con
servation resource divisions
will focus on specific land
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use problems and the natural
resource management
implications resulting
therefrom.
The Society will name its
Fellow and Honor Award
winners for 1974 during the
meeting. Also to be an
nounced are the recipients of
the $1,200 Donald A.
Williams Soil Conservation
Scholarship for 1974 and
twenty $5OO Gildea
Scholarships in Conservation
for 1974-75. /
Members of the Society’s
Empire State Chapter are
the official hosts for the
meeting. Activities will
center in the Hotel Syracuse.
Chariman of the Program
Committee for the meeting is
Warren Doolittle, director of
the U. S. Department of
Agriculture’s Northeastern
Forest Experiment Station,
Upper Darby, Pennsylvania.
Robert Eddleman, assistant
state conservationist for
USDA’s Soil Conservation
Service, Baldwinsville, New
York, is in charge of local
arrangements.
Of the Nation’s 47 2 million
Americans age 16 or older who
v ork in metropolitan areas most
get to their jobs by cat - 36 2 mil
lion But, according to Census
Bureau figures, of the remaining
workers, 3 8 million travel b\
streetcar or bus, 17 million bv
subway or railroad, 3 million
walk, 1 million work at home, and
1 5 million use taxis, bicycles, and
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