The Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Food of the Generalitat, Oscar Ordeigexplained that it is expected that today the members of the team that must carry out the audit of the Institut d’Investigació i Tecnologia Agroalimentària (IRTA) will be known, which will be made up of experts. … in “independent” biosecurity from Madrid, the Basque Country and the whole world.
He said this in statements this Monday to the TVE program ‘La Hora de la 1’, where he said that it will be the director of IRTA, Josep Usall, who will coordinate this group which must “mark the steps» and research to define what to look for.
Furthermore, he said that this week the samples that are in the laboratory crossed with the samples found in the wild boars from the Cerdanyola del Vallès region (Barcelona): “We will have information to know if the DNA matches or not, so I think that in a few days we will have very important information.”
“Every day that passes we move forward, have more information and above all, what I repeat, caution, we will let the scientists work, we will always let ourselves be guided by scientific criteria“, he insisted. Likewise, he said that other hypotheses are not excluded and sent a message of confidence to the agri-food sector and the research system, which is “fundamental”.
Asked about the export situation, he sent a message of support to the sector and stressed that in Catalonia “The leading economic sector is the agri-food industry,” so, he says, this situation will have an impact, in the literal sense.
He highlighted that 80% of Catalan pork exports are destined for Asia and that, on the continent, the main market is China, where pork products from outside the region can be exported. province of Barcelona. “This generates a significant impact because we have a very large herd in Osona (Barcelona),” he lamented, reports Ep.
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