{"id":199590,"date":"2021-08-25T10:43:22","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T08:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/didiza-appoints-task-team-on-animal-biosecurity\/"},"modified":"2021-08-25T10:43:22","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T08:43:22","slug":"didiza-appoints-task-team-on-animal-biosecurity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/didiza-appoints-task-team-on-animal-biosecurity\/","title":{"rendered":"Didiza appoints task team on animal biosecurity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sanews.gov.za\/sites\/default\/files\/2012\/images\/newsstorytemplate\/202108\/didizasnipped1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development Minister Thoko Didiza has appointed a Ministerial Task Team on Animal Biosecurity with a special emphasis on Foot and Mouth Disease, African Swine Fever and Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza.<\/p>\n<p>The purpose of the task team is to find mechanisms and provide recommendations on a range of key decisions, whereby a collaborative initiative between government and private sector, through a public private partnership (PPP) can be established to tackle the country\u2019s animal biosecurity issues.<\/p>\n<p>The task team will also be responsible for issues which will include, and not limited to realistic strategies with the intent to have an outcome that can be implemented by affected stakeholders,\u201d departmental spokesperson, Reggie Ngcobo said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The task team will further focus on the complexity of the overall animal and public health system in a \u201cOne Health\u201d approach, and liaise with technical task teams of African Swine Fever, Foot and Mouth Disease and Avian Influenza.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will consider the roles of provincial government laboratories and private sector laboratories in disease monitoring, residue tests, meat hygiene with emphasis on all stakeholders\u2019 consideration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The team of experts, which is largely independent, but with significant government and international experience, includes Professor Johann Kirsten, Dr Kgabi Mogajane, Dr Gideon Bruckner, and Dr Shadrack Moephuli. \u2013&nbsp;<strong>SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development Minister Thoko Didiza has appointed a Ministerial Task Team on Animal Biosecurity with a special emphasis on Foot and Mouth Disease, African Swine Fever and Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza. The purpose of the task team is to find mechanisms and provide recommendations on a range of key decisions, whereby [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":199591,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[38678],"class_list":{"0":"post-199590","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-south-africa","8":"tag-sanews","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/didiza-appoints-task-team-on-animal-biosecurity.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}