From the National Agrifood Health and Quality Service (Senasa) they informed that starting tomorrow more personnel from the Río Negro Police to assist in the sanitary controls of the Catriel, Casa de Piedra and Puente vecinal Río Colorado–La Adela posts.
“These entry points to the protected region of Patagonia have been considered by the Senasa as strategic and priority within those located in the jurisdiction of the province of Río Negro, Proposing forward to continue reinforcing each of the control posts”, indicated the vice president of Senasa, Rodolfo Acerbi.
For his part, the director of the North Patagonia Regional Center, Ricardo Sánchez, stressed that this decision by the highest authorities of the Health Organization “represents an important budgetary expenditure with the aim of continuing providing the Patagonian Barrier with greater efficiency in sanitary controls and granting greater security to the inspection personnel who carry out their tasks at the control posts”.
He added that “beyond the institutional effort of Senasa, safeguarding the different sanitary statuses of the Patagonian Region must be a shared objective with the provincial and municipal governments and the agricultural and agro-industrial productive sector, and all must be involved in this objective.”
Sanitary status
Argentina has zones free of a certain disease, recognized with a differentiated sanitary status, which allows privileging its agricultural and livestock production in the most demanding international markets, contributing to the protection of agricultural health and the national zoo-phytosanitary heritage, international and national tourism , to quality standards and food safety, to protect the health of consumers and maintain the international recognition of the Argentine Republic in its role as a reliable supplier of healthy food.
Sanitary barriers
Zoophytosanitary barriers constitute an “integral control system” due to their strategic location at all accesses to free zones, with Senasa being the body in charge of controlling entry to these zones. For it has 71 Internal Control Posts throughout the country, whose function is mainly to control the entry of host plant products and/or animal products and by-products susceptible to transmitting a certain disease, thus protecting the differentiated condition of that area.
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