March 22, 2013
The shipment comprised of 20 tonnes of pork processed by the Federal Inspection Facility Type (TIF) Establishment 467. With the shipment, Jalisco joins Sonara and Yucatan as pork exporters to Japan.
He added that the challenge was now to keep the disease out of the state.
On behalf of the Governor of Jalisco, the Secretary of Rural Development Hector Padilla said the state government was committed to working with producers and federal government to ensure the supply of safe pork to the domestic market and Japan.
Japan's Ministry of Agriculture first recognised Jalisco as free of classical swine fever in August 2012. TIF Establishment 467 was the first to receive approval to export pig meat born and raised in the state, but SENASICA estimated that at least three more Jalisco processing facilities could be cleared to export pork to Japan in the near future.
Mexico ships 50,000 tonnes of pork per year with a market value of US$256.1 million. Jalisco and Sonora are the main pork-producing regions in the country, accounting for 45% of national production. The shipment is expected to reach the pork of Tokyo, Japan, within 20 to 25 days.
