Feed Planet Magazine Issue-Sayı: 23 March/April - Mart/Nisan 2020

COVER STORY • KAPAK DOSYASI 38 FEED PLANET / MARCH-APRIL 2020 • MART-NİSAN 2020 Standartlar konusunda dikkatli ve özenli olmaya devam etmeliyiz 30 yıl önce Avrupa tarafından yönetilen ve çoğun- luğunun üstesinden gelinen salgınlar nedeniyle ortaya çıkan zorlukları görmüş kişiler olarak, bir kriz durumuna geri dönmeyi istemeyiz. Örneğin, Endonezya ve Çin'de domuz vebası oldukça yaygın. Ağustos 2019 itibarıy- la, Çin’in domuz nüfusu şaşırtıcı bir şekilde yüzde 40 oranında azaldı ve yaklaşık 141 milyar dolarlık kayıp yaşandı. Başarısızlığın düzenlemelerdeki eksikliklerden değil, yönetimde yetersizlikten kaynaklandığı düşünül- mektedir. Afrika domuz vebası Asya genelinde hızla yayıldı ve şu anda Avrupa'ya ulaştı. EFSA'ya (Avrupa Gıda Güvenliği Otoritesi) göre dokuz AB ülkesinde tespit edildi. EFSA ayrıca şu anda AB ülkelerinin kırsal bölgelerindeki ticari olmayan yerli tarım uygulamalarıyla ilgili olarak, hastalı- ğın ortadan kaldırılması ve yayılması üzerindeki kontro- lün sıkılaştırılması konusunda da mücadele vermektedir. Çekya bu konuda yeni bir başarı oldu ve benzer türden başarı öykülerini bekliyoruz. Son zamanlarda klorlu tavuk maruziyetinde, bu uy- gulamaya yaklaşım hakkında sorular ortaya çıkıyor; bu iyi mi, yoksa kötü mü? AB'de tavuğun klorlanma- sı yasaklanmıştır. Bu yasak, klorlama gerektirmeyen We must continue to be vigilant and diligent about standards Having seen the challenges faced by Europe 30 years ago with disease outbreaks, which have been managed and for the most part, overcome, we wouldn’t want to regress to a crisis mode. In Indonesia and China for example, swine fever is rife. By August 2019, China’s pig population declined by a staggering 40 percent , around USD141 billion in loss. It has been said that the failure was not so much in a lack of regu- lation, but a shortcoming in governance. African swine fever has swept across Asia, and is now in Europe - detected in nine EU countries ac- cording to EFSA (European Food Safety Authority). EFSA is also currently tackling the issue in relation to non-commercial domestic farming practices in rural areas across EU countries, to tighten control over the eradication and spread of the disease. Czechia has been a recent success in this regard, and we antici- pate further success stories of similar ilk. In the recent exposé about chlorinated chicken, it raises questions about the approach to this practice; is it good or bad? In the EU, the chlorination of chicken is banned. It works on the premise that we be should be creating safe food that doesn’t require chlorination, and we manage contaminants, like salmonella, prop- erly from the source. Other camps may feel that it doesn’t matter as long as the symptom can be treated effectively, and we need not worry about the cause. But if the rumours are true, and future UK trade deals outside of Europe will include chlorinated chicken on the menu , then hopefully they are processed without lapses in the early stages of the production chain. For example, keeping livestock in as sanitary, healthy, and humane environments as possible. Of course, this will only transpire if the UK abandons its hitherto strict (EU) practices and allows their importation. No doubt the debate will continue. It just highlights however, that these are the types of decision-making that we must manage most carefully when safeguard- ing our secure handling of feed and food. Now that we are in the growing grip of the zoonotic Covid-19, i.e. it can jump from animals to humans, what are the implications for our food chain? Ques- tions abound as to the virus’ origins; was it the eating of exotic wild animals, or keeping them in close prox- imity to urbanised farmed ones, where the disease mi- grated from the ‘wild’ to the ‘farmed’? Such was one of the suspicions about the H5N1 avian flu. We must