{"id":90445,"date":"2025-10-20T17:25:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T17:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/90445\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T17:25:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T17:25:11","slug":"farmer-convicted-for-illegally-importing-sheep-pox-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/90445\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmer convicted for illegally importing sheep pox vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"600\" class=\"picture-main-block-image\" data-nxsrc=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/sheep-1.jpg\" alt=\"Farmer convicted for illegally importing sheep pox vaccine\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/sheep-1-960x600.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A 60-year-old farmer has received a nine-month suspended prison sentence and a fine of \u20ac800 after for attempting to import vaccines for sheep and goat pox from Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>He was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/news\/environment\/1284115\/man-arrested-at-border-for-smuggling-illegal-sheep-pox-vaccines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">arrested last Wednesday<\/a> at the Kipi border station in Evros and charged with illegally importing pharmaceuticals not approved by the European Union.<\/p>\n<p>The defendant\u2019s lawyer told Alexandroupoli Single-Member Misdemeanor Court that his client was a farmer and father of four children who was not involved in livestock farming.<\/p>\n<p>He had received the package containing 24 vials of vaccine on behalf of a livestock farmer, with the intention of delivering them to a veterinarian in Rodopi.<\/p>\n<p>The vials, which contained 1,200 doses of vaccine, were seized and will be destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>The current outbreak of sheep pox, now its 14th month, has led to the culling of more than 260,000 sheep and goats \u2013 roughly 2% of the national herd \u2013 up to last month, forcing 1,100 farms to shut down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 60-year-old farmer has received a nine-month suspended prison sentence and a fine of \u20ac800 after for attempting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[273,134,6148,111,43,139,69,68079],"class_list":{"0":"post-90445","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-justice","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-newzealand","14":"tag-nz","15":"tag-sheep-pox"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}