US criticises Mexican handling of screwworm near border
A US official says he has not come into force enough to prevent the spread of Mexico’s new world screw worm.
The US Agricultural Secretary Brooke Rollins accused the detection of less than 113 km from the US border in order to prevent cattle movements and to reduce the population of screw wolf population, which invaded and kills pillows when invaded.
According to the authorities, the Vida worm has not yet exceeded the US border, but it pose a risk of billions of dollars for the US beef industry.
The US has kept its border closed to Mexican cattle imports since May.
The epidemic increased the tensions between countries before a planned study of the United States-Mexican-Canada trade agreement and shook livestock and beef sectors.
The US Department of Agriculture said that Nuevo Leon, who limited Texas on September 21st, learned the case.
He said that within a few hours, USDA sent staff to the region.
“Unfortunately, what we find is that Mexico cannot apply appropriate cattle control controls in infected regions and does not tend to fly traps every day, as promised every day, which prevents our real -time perception skills.” He said.
He said that the reopening of the border to the livestock trade is completely dependent on the agreed surveillance protocols.
The Mexican Sanitation Agency Senasica said that the fly trap system was checked every three or four days and that there is a frequency determined with the US Department of Agriculture’s Animal Health Branch Aphis.
“Regarding the determination of a new world screw faded case in Northern Mexico, this finding should be taken into consideration by the implementation of a protocol established in the bilateral action plan,” Senasica said to Reuters.
On Wednesday, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said that Mexico has not been informed of any changes in the expectation that USDA will reopen its border before November, and it is complex to control the livestock movement in Mexico.
The United States invested $ 21 million (A32 million) in a facility in South Mexico to produce sterile flies released to reduce the mating population of wild flies.
