The analysis carried out by the National Laboratory of the National Agrifood Health and Quality Service (Senasa) on the third sample taken from birds from the commercial farm "Avícola Santa Ana", in the province of Corrientes, yielded a negative
result
.
In this way, while the results are communicated to the Federal Court of Corrientes, the agency ordered
the authorization of product movements to and from the establishment
.
It should be remembered that the firm threw away some 360,000 eggs this Saturday due to the ban on mobilizing production and the lack of a place to store them.
Likewise, Senasa established to continue with epidemiological monitoring, every 14 days.
The farm is located in the sanitary control zone, 6.5 km away from the first confirmed outbreak of bird flu in Corrientes, in the town of San Cosme, an area surrounded by lagoons and close to the banks of the Paraná River where there are presence of wild and migratory birds.
How the conflict started
The poultry farm denounced the first test carried out by Senasa, which according to the agency had been positive, forcing
Santa Ana to slaughter the 200,000 hens
they have in production.
As the company denounced from the beginning,
there were errors in the procedure by Senasa
.
In a statement, he assured that on Tuesday, April 4, a Senasa official was present at the company and warned that he had never entered the sheds or had contact with the animals at any time.
He only left a kit to take samples in the hands of a Registered Veterinarian, who for the poultry, "is a professional who has Senasa registration, certified in the safety of the products, but who has no training in health, much less to take samples".
"This person assumed that the test would be carried out by the poultry company, while the company owners trusted that the specialist would carry it out. In this state of confusion, the samples were not carried out and the kits returned to Senasa empty," They reported from the poultry farm.
"On Thursday, April 6, Lisandro Enciso, owner of Santa Ana, received a call from the entity informing him that the results had been negative. This fact changed a few hours later, when that same night they called again to let them know
that 20 hens had tested positive
. The national body, then, ordered the firm on Saturday, April 8, to slaughter 200,000 birds due to this supposed detection of avian flu," they added from the firm from Corrientes.
For what from the signing they appeared before the Justice, to request.
Given this request, the National Judiciary, through the Federal Court of First Instance of Corrientes, approved the amparo appeal filed by the poultry company.
And the second sample taken from the farm's birds, arranged by order of the Federal Justice, gave negative results for the presence of bird flu.
Therefore, from the agency they again asked the Justice for a third sample, which was
carried out yesterday and was negative
.
situation in the country
To date, of the 459 notifications analyzed and of the samplings carried out in the Sanitary Control Zones, there are 79 detections of the disease in total throughout the country.
The confirmed cases are in backyard birds (63), commercial sector (11) and wild (5), distributed as follows: 19 in Córdoba, 18 in Buenos Aires, 10 in Neuquén, 9 in Santa Fe, 7 in Río Black, 4 in Chubut, 2 in Corrientes, 2 in San Luis, 2 in Chaco, 2 in La Pampa, 1 in Jujuy, 1 in Santiago del Estero, 1 in Salta and 1 in Formosa.