Industry supports official plan to end foot-and-mouth vaccination by 2027

The president of the Paraguayan Meat Chamber (CPC), Randy Ross, confirmed on Valor Agregado on Radio Asunción 1250 AM that the meatpacking industry supports the official position of Senacsa to stop vaccinating against foot-and-mouth disease by 2027. “It would be good to move up to the next league,” Ross emphasized in reference to the goal of achieving the status of free of foot-and-mouth disease without vaccination.

Ross considered it “a very important decision” that “requires all of us to sit down and discuss and reach a consensus.” Nonetheless, he stated that halting vaccination and changing the country’s sanitary status “is the right path” and “a necessary step forward.”