EU lifts restrictions on exports of bovine meat from Cyprus

The European Union Standing Veterinary Committee decided to lift the restriction measures on exports of bovine meat from Cyprus.The restrictions were imposed after foot and mouth disease was detected in Cyprus.
The Cyprus government had asked that exports of bovine meat resume. The meat exported will come from areas outside the 10- kilometre surveillance zone and under strict sanitary conditions.
The same Committee had lifted on December 3 the prohibition of dispatching pig-meat from Cyprus from the zones beyond the 10km zone, around the infected holding where foot and mouth disease was detected.
Cyprus Veterinary Services culled recently thousands of animals, which tested positive for foot and mouth disease, as part of efforts to eliminate the virus and its destructive consequences for the island’s farming sector and the economy.