Aliano, pigs seized in livestock farm

The soldiers of the Carabinieri Forestry Unit of Alife (CE), together with the veterinary doctors of the ASL Caserta – “Eggs

Matesino of Piedimonte Matese (CE), carried out an inspection at alivestock farm located in the municipality of Ailano (CE), finding an illicit agronomic use of zootechnical effluents produced by buffalo breeding due to failure to communicate to the competent provincial office of the Campania Region and also due to structural and health deficiencies. The legal representative was admitted to the procedure of environmental requirements that allow, if fulfilled within the prescribed terms, the extinction of the crime upon payment of an administrative fine.

Furthermore, the presence of a breeding farm was also ascertained pigs not registered with the competent ASL/CE – Veterinary Operating Unit of Piedimonte Matese, consisting of 12 animals, of which two sows, a boar and nine suckling pigs of approximately two months of age, which appear to belong to a very valuable breed known as the “Black Pig of Nebrodi”. These animals were subjected to seizure administrative for the purposes of protecting public health and livestock, promptly transmitted to the competent regional health authorities, in consideration of the obligations arising from the current health emergency for swine fever, pursuant to Ministerial Ordinance no. 5 of 24 August 2023, and subsequent extensions thereof.

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