Due to Avian Influenza, Hong Kong partially embarks on chicken meat and eggs from Germany

Published 2021년 5월 6일

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The Hong Kong Food Safety Center (CFS) has halted the import of chicken meat and eggs from regions in Germany including Emsland and Niedersachsen due to an outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza. In the first quarter of the year, Hong Kong had imported approximately 180 tonnes of frozen poultry meat and 0.53 million poultry eggs from these affected areas. The CFS is keeping the situation under observation and will adjust import restrictions based on information from the OIE and local authorities.

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Due to an outbreak of H5N1 avian influenza in Germany in Emsland, Niedersachsen and characterized by local animal health authorities as highly pathogenic, the Hong Kong Food Safety Center (CFS) has suspended imports of chicken meat and eggs from that region to protect Hong Kong's public health. A CFS spokesman said that, according to the Census and Statistics Department, Hong Kong imported about 180 tonnes of frozen poultry meat and about 0.53 million poultry eggs from Germany in the first three months of this year. . "The CFS contacted the German authorities on the issues and will closely ...

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