USDA bets big on World Animal Health Organization to help protect U.S. pork trade amid African Swine Fever fears | Agweek

ASF has been detected in the Dominican Republic and Haiti, and if it reaches the U.S. territories of Puerto Rico or the U.S. Virgin Islands — just short boat rides away — major pork importing countries would be within their rights to ban all U.S. pork. That is, unless the U.S. successfully uses a new provision in the World Organization for Animal Health's chapters called the “protection zone.”