The Philippines can no longer export pork products to Singapore for failing to meet requirements, Emilio V. Escobillo, Jr, chair of the South Cotabato Swine Producers Association (Socospa), told MindaNews.Escobillo confirmed that no testing for Ebola Reston virus was conducted in South Cotabato province in mid-February, as earlier promised by the Philippine government. South Cotabato is located in the South of the Philippine island of Mindanao.
Escobillo said the Agri-Food Veterinary Authority of Singapore gave the Philippine government until end of January 2010 to submit a bio-security measure for Mindanao, global position system of hog farms in Mindanao and the different chokepoints in Mindanao but this was not complied. Full Story
