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

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 ...