The National Immigration Agency (NIA, 移民署) prevented the invasion of African Swine Fever and fully mobilized manpower to visit new immigrants’ snack bars in their jurisdiction to promote swine fever prevention. The NIA also asked the new immigrants to record propaganda videos in English, Indonesian, Vietnamese, and Thai, and called on the new immigrants to protect Taiwan's pig industry and block all possible channels that can spread swine fever.
In addition to acquiring relevant sources and clues through multiple channels, the NIA’s dedicated teams in counties and cities also cooperated with local government police, health, and agricultural affairs units to join the local crime investigation platform team and establish communication channels to help prevent smuggling of pork products from the source, the distribution, and the destination. The use of the three-pronged approach of publicizing, collecting clues, and investigating, through publicity graphics cards and videos in 7 languages, help strengthen the investigation of online shopping, Facebook, food shops, restaurants, snack shops and warehouse operators.
The National Immigration Agency’s African swine fever prevention leaflets in different languages. Photo/provided by the National Immigration Agency
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New immigrants shoot videos in their native languages, and call on fellow new immigrants not to import, mail or bring meat or processed meat-containing foods to Taiwan from areas with swine fever such as Vietnam, China, Hong Kong, Macau, Indonesia, Cambodia, the Philippines, and South Korea. Do not buy meat products of unknown origin to avoid accidentally violating the law. If you violate the regulations, you can be fined up to NT$1 million. Mailing or purchasing pork products from abroad will also be punished with a fixed-term imprisonment not more than 7 years and a fine of not more than NT$3 million.
