Which practice is identified as a risk for ASF entry via waste feeding?

• A. Garbage feeding
• B. Feral swine
• C. Trucks moving between farms
• D. Illegal movement of pork products

Answer: (A)

Waste feeding represents a direct entry route for ASF because kitchen scraps that contain meat or pork products can harbor infectious virus. If such contaminated waste is fed to pigs, the virus can be introduced into a herd even when other biosecurity measures are in place. ASF virus is notably hardy in meat and can survive in waste under conditions that allow it to remain infectious, so feeding garbage to pigs bypasses many safeguards and creates a clear risk pathway for introduction. Other options describe important risks to ASF spread in general, but they are not the specific waste‑feeding route: feral swine can spread the disease once it’s present in the environment, trucks between farms can transfer contamination via surfaces, and illegal movement of pork products can introduce the virus through contaminated products—yet the direct link to waste feeding is the practice of feeding garbage containing meat scraps to pigs.