Mexico: Senasica maintains inspection tasks to guarantee food supply and protect agri-food heritage
• The National Service for Health, Safety and Agro-Food Quality (Senasica), in its capacity as a national security body, maintains work for one hundred percent of all its substantial areas, following the recommendations of the Health authorities.
• About 200 Senasica health officers work in the country's main ports, airports and borders.
• Work on the border with the United States continues normally, so as not to affect the trade of 80 percent of the total food imported and exported by Mexico.
With the objective of guaranteeing food supply and protecting the country's agri-food heritage during the COVID-19 contingency, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development maintains one hundred percent of the substantial sanitary inspection activities in the main seaports and by air, as well as at border crossings with the United States, a nation with which 80 percent of the total food imported and exported by our country is marketed.
Around 200 officers of the National Service of Health, Safety and Agro-Food Quality (Senasica), review commercial shipments and cargo entering the country, in order to streamline imported food products demanded by the national market and avoid the introduction of pests and diseases.
Agriculture implements in the Agricultural Health Inspection Offices (OISA) the preventive measures established by the Ministry of Health to avoid contagion and the spread of the virus, without affecting the commercial exchange of agrifood goods.
With this, Agriculture ensures the supply of food, maintains the agri-food trade with trading partners and serves the national market.
During the inspection work, Senasica officials follow the recommendations of the governing body of human health in Mexico, such as: the use of gloves, mouthguards and disinfectant gel, in addition, they try to keep distance from people with whom they have direct communication in inspection points.
Among the measures applied are the fact that officers are not allowed to go to their work centers if they show symptoms of a respiratory disease.
The shares are held mainly at the customs in Nuevo Laredo and Reynosa, Tamaulipas; Colombia, Nuevo León; City Juarez Chihuahua; Nogales, Sonora, and Tijuana, Baja California. Similarly, in the ports of Veracruz, Veracruz; Manzanillo, Colima; Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán; Altamira, Tamaulipas, and Progreso, Yucatán.
At the same time, with the help of 85 canine pairs in ports, airports and borders, the Agriculture agency inspects tourist luggage in an agile and non-intrusive way, to detect plant and animal products that could be carriers of pests and diseases.
Inspection protocols include the placement of sanitary mats upon arrival of all international flights, as well as commercial and tourist vessels considered risky in seaports, which serve to disinfect passenger and crew footwear, as well as luggage wheels. .
At the Mexico City International Airport, there are large-format rugs, which ensure that all people step on the disinfection areas.
Additionally, review activities are carried out on the country's highways at Federal Verification and Inspection Points (PVIF), through which Senasica officials monitor the traceability of food that is moved from one region of the country to another. .
It is important to reiterate that Senasica, in its capacity as a national security organ, maintains the work of all its substantial areas at one hundred percent, such as meat inspection in Federal Inspection Type Establishments, procedures and certificates for mobilization, import and export of food, supervision tasks in the centers of production and packaging of organic and conventional food, among others.
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