Circular 35: Veterinary hygiene for farming-swifts establishments in compliance with Vietnam’s law

Establishments owned by organizations, individuals farming swifts, including entire construction works serving for farming swifts with commercial nature including house for farming swifts, warehouse and processing facilities shall implement veterinary hygiene and prevention against epidemics in accordance with Article 5 of Circular No. 35/2013/TT-BNNPTNT of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Vietnam, specifically as follows:

- Establishments of farming swifts must have protective costumes such as clothes, shoes, boots, and gauze masks. Employees and guests visiting must wear protective costumes of establishments and wash hands with soap before entering and after leaving from establishments of farming swifts.

- Houses for farming swifts must be cleaned regularly and conduct antitoxic and sterilizing measures periodically at least once/week. Not use sterilization substances affecting the quality of nests. In case of preventing epidemics, antitoxic and sterilizing hygiene must comply with guidelines of veterinary agencies.

- Instruments serving for exploiting the nests must be cleaned, sterilized before and after use.

- Waste from farming swifts must be collected, detoxified, sterilized and handled by one of measures of annealing, burning, burying or other methods in order to ensure safety before being put into the environment.

- Exercising regulation on supervising health and handling epidemics

+ Establishments of farming swifts must regularly supervise the health of swift birds. If there is an abnormal death of bird, they must report immediately to local authorities or veterinary agencies for timely handling;

+ Establishments of farming swifts must be examined, supervised and taken sample for periodical or ad hoc testing at request of competent veterinary agencies;

+ In case of arising epidemics: Establishments of farming swifts must perform strictly measures of preventing against epidemics in accordance with law and guide of competent veterinary agencies; In course of arising epidemics, all nests that are exploited from localities announced epidemics must be handled under guide of competent veterinary agencies before selling.

Notably, for establishments of farming swifts before the effective date of this Circular, but not ensure conditions as prescribed in this Circular, they must have remedies not later than December 31, 2014.

View other provisions at Circular No. 35/2013/TT-BNNPTNT of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Vietnam, effective from September 06, 2013.

Thu Ba

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