Russian authorities ban the import of livestock products from the European Union and their transit through its territory, due to foot-and-mouth disease outbreak in Germany.
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00:00And Russian authorities banned the import of livestock products from the European Union
00:05and their transit through its territory due to food and mouth disease outbreak in Germany.
00:10The decision follows the confirmation by the German agricultural agency Rossell-Jost-Nadzor
00:15of the first outbreak in a farm in Brandenburg, near Berlin.
00:20Restrictions were also implemented in several Latin American, European and Asian countries,
00:23while Belgium, Ireland, the Netherlands and Poland tightened controls to prevent the spread
00:29of the disease.