This fine corresponds to the highest one that has been applied to one of the authorized diagnostic laboratories.
During the afternoon of this Thursday 4 January, the National Service of Fisheries and Aquaculture of Chile (Sernapesca) confirmed its determination to sanction the company with the removal of the Diagnostic Laboratories Network AGQ Patagonia SpA. This, for delivering false information in results of analyses carried out within the framework of official programs Disease surveillance and control.
The above is based on the failure to comply with the provisions of Supreme Decree No. 15 which establishes the Register of Accredited Persons to Prepare Environmental and Sanitary Assessment Instruments, and the certifications required by the General Fisheries and Aquaculture Law (LGPA) and its Regulations.
The state agency detailed that the irregularity was detected in March 2023 as part of the Special Aquaculture Control Plan, which allowed a team of officials and officials of the Regional Directorate Los Lagos to detect the concealment of results of diagnostic analysis and delivery of false information by AGQ Patagonia by not reporting positive results to the authority salmon infectious anaemia virus (ISAv).
Sernapesca's deputy director of aquaculture, Mónica Rojas, stressed that this sanction corresponds to the highest that has been applied to one of the diagnostic laboratories authorized by the Service.
"The fault detected in the control procedure is that of the greater seriousness and the maximum penalty is requiredas the Network of Private Laboratories is a fundamental pillar for the surveillance and control of diseases in aquaculture," he emphasized.
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