Bird flu raging in many countries, Hong Kong bans poultry meat imports from the United States, Canada and France

The outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza in many foreign countries affected the food supply in Hong Kong.

Following the suspension of the import of poultry meat and poultry products from Germany and some parts of the United States last Tuesday (13th), the Center for Food Safety of the FEHD announced today (19th) that the import of poultry meat and poultry products from parts of Canada and France will be suspended. One more region was included in the list of prohibited imports.

A spokesman for the Centre for Food Safety said that the authorities in Canada, the United States and France have been contacted about the incident, and will continue to closely monitor the information issued by the World Organization for Animal Health and relevant authorities on the outbreak of avian influenza, and take appropriate actions in response to the development of the local epidemic.

The Center for Food Safety of the FEHD announced today (19th) that it will suspend the import of poultry meat and poultry products from parts of Canada and France.

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The Center for Food Safety announced earlier that due to the outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza in Grafschaft Bentheim, Lower Saxony, Germany, and Defiance County, Ohio, the United States, the import of poultry meat and poultry products (including poultry eggs) from the above-mentioned areas is suspended.

However, with the outbreak of H5N1 avian influenza in many foreign countries, the CFS announced that Strathcona County in Alberta, Canada, Brown County in Minnesota in the United States and Meuse in France are also included in the import list to protect the public health of Hong Kong.

The FEHD has contacted Canada, the United States, and France. The three countries import the most poultry meat from the United States to Hong Kong

A spokesman for the CFS said that the authorities in Canada, the United States and France have been contacted about the incident, and will continue to closely monitor the information issued by the World Organization for Animal Health and relevant authorities on the outbreak of avian influenza, and take appropriate actions in response to the development of the local epidemic.

According to the Census and Statistics Department, in the first six months of this year, Hong Kong imported about 60 tonnes of chilled poultry meat from Canada, about 7360 tonnes of chilled and chilled poultry meat and about 2148 tonnes of chilled poultry meat from the United States. 10,000 poultry eggs, and about 540 metric tons of chilled and chilled poultry meat and about 25,000 poultry eggs imported from France.

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