At the beginning of this year, the Romanian Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MADR) announced that, thanks to the latest diplomatic effort of the Romanian Government, the Iranian market has been reopened for livestock export (sheep and cattle).

Romania and Iran – new possibilities for a long lasting collaboration

The MADR claims that in January 2019 the Standard Export Certificate has been approved between the National Sanitary Veterinary Authority for Food Safety of Romania (ANSVSA) and the Iran Veterinary Organization (IVO). As a result, the exports of livestock from Romania to Iran were reopened.

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Sheep are animals which can offer a lot of benefits. Since their domestication, shepherds tried to obtain the best traits of crossbreeding.

Nowadays, sheep are among the most appreciated animals. Besides wool, meat and milk, products that we all know very well, sheep also offer other benefits. So, which are the most common uses of the sheep?

Meat: Lamb and Mutton

There is no doubt that the most important product we get from these animals is meat. Lamb is the meat from the sheep that is less than one year old, and mutton is the meat from a sheep that is over one year old.

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According to the National Sanitary Veterinary and Food Safety Authority, the certificate model for the export of sheep and goats from Romania to the United Arab Emirates has been approved.

In consequence, Seradria received the approval to export sheep and cattle.

The official health document certifies the following:

• They come from the country where FMD has not been registered for at least 12 months prior to export, or from a country where the disease has not been registered for a period not less than three months prior to export with stamping out policy;
• The animals come from a country where PPR has not been registered for at least two years prior to export, with stamping out policy;
• The animals come from a country where sheep pox has not been registered during the three years prior to exportation;
• The origin of the animals is from a country free of Bluetongue for at least two years prior to export;
• The animals were subject to laboratory tests for Bluetongue antigen virus detection (PCR test) during the quarantine period with negative results;
• The animals were protected from the mosquitoes that transmit the disease (culicoides) for at least 28 days prior is export and subjected to laboratory tests during this period to detect antibodies for the disease with negative results;
• The animals were vaccinated against Bluetongue not less than 60 days prior to the export with a vaccine containing all reported serotype in the country of export;
• The animals were isolated or reared in a holding where no case of anthrax disease was reported for at least 20 days prior to export;
• The animals come from herds of origin which have been officially free from brucellosis for the past 12 months prior to export and the animals have been subjected to a laboratory test for brucellosis with negative results;
• The animals come from holdings where no case of rabies was reported for at least one year prior to export;
• The animals received preventive doses of internal and external antiparasitic during 14-21 days before export and have been sprayed with an insecticide approved by OIE;
• The animals have been clinically examined during 48 hours before export and didn’t show any symptoms of infectious and contagious disease including Q fever disease;
• Recording the vaccinations (name of the disease, vaccine type, vaccination date which were given to the animals within six months prior to export);

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Since the beginning of this year, Romania can export sheep, goat and cattle to Saudi Arabia after the Romanian National Sanitary Veterinary and Food Safety Authority has recently concluded negotiations that started last year with the authorities of the Kingdom.

The agreements to open trade relations for export of animals to Saudi Arabia were started in April 2017 and, as a consequence, in September 2017 a delegation from Saudi Arabia came in Romania to evaluate the activity of veterinary services of the country regarding the control of diseases and the biosecurity conditions at cattle sheep and goats.

At the beginning of this year, the debates were completed and the export of sheep, goat and cattle from Romania – one of the largest exporters of livestock animals – was declared open to Saudi Arabia.

During the negotiations, the Saudi authorities demanded special export conditions and until now, our company is the only one in Romania that obtained the authorization to export animals to the Kingdom. Continue reading Seradria, the only Romanian company with exporting authorisations to Saudi Arabia →