import restrictions on pork products due to influenza a h1n1 in june 2009 mexico indicated concern over import restrictions on live pigs pork products and sub-products due to influenza a h1n1. mexico had complied with wto and other relevant international recommendations since declaring the influenza outbreak on 23 april 2009. document g sps gen 921 provided information on the actions taken by the mexican government to control the disease as well as information on the virus and its form of dissemination. mexico urged members to notify the committee of measures taken with regard to the virus. the fao and the oie stated that there was no evidence of transmission of the virus through food and mexico was disappointed that armenia bahrain china gabon indonesia jordan and surinam continued to restrict the import of pork and pork products without any legal or scientific basis. mexico was grateful to china indonesia and jordan for holding bilateral consultations on the matter and intended to hold bilateral consultations with other countries. australia brazil canada the dominican republic and the united states supported mexicos concern and brazil provided further information in document g sps s gen 922. indonesia thanked mexico and the united states for the bilateral consultations and stressed indonesias commitment to protect its territory and industries from the virus. china underlined the fact that china was the most populous nation in the world and stressed the burden this virus could have on its public health system. despite measures to prevent entry of the disease into china there had still been instances of detection of the virus which highlighted how contagious it was. the provisional measures imposed by china took into account its huge population its susceptibility to the disease through human-to-human transmission the fact that china was the worlds biggest producer of pork and that pork was the most consumed meat product in the country. china had lifted the ban on pork treated to 70 degrees centigrade. chinese experts would continue to work with other members. china had notified the wto of its measures. jordan stated that it had imposed only a temporary suspension on the transport and import of live swine and that heat-treated pork products were exempt from the suspension. the temporary measures were under constant revision. in october 2009 mexico raised concerns that various members including china gabon indonesia and jordan continued to maintain unjustified restrictions on pork products due to the influenza a h1n1 virus occurrence in humans in mexico in april 2009. mexico had taken timely and effective measures to contain the virus and its spread to the rest of the world yet measures had been taken against mexican pork products without legal or scientific basis. mexico requested trading partners imposing such measures to immediately withdraw these unnecessary trade barriers. influenza a h1n1 had not been detected in swine or poultry from mexico but only in humans. the oie who and fao had made it clear that the risk of being infected by influenza a h1n1 through the consumption of pork meat was regarded as nonexistent. mexico stressed the need for these international organizations especially the oie to accelerate research and available scientific information on the risk of propagation of influenza a h1n1 from humans to animals and vice versa. mexico expressed appreciation to those members that had supported mexico during the global pandemic and to members that had fully withdrawn previously imposed trade restrictions. canada recalled that who had declared a human influenza pandemic and that managing the public health impacts of this outbreak was critical. the trade measures adopted by several members on swine pork and pork products in response to the h1n1 influenza virus were without any scientific basis. the safety of pork meat was based on global evidence and supported by statements from fao oie and who detection of the pandem