Hong Kong suspends imports of poultry meat and poultry products from parts of Germany

The Center for Food Safety of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government announced on the 12th that in response to a report from the World Organisation for Animal Health that the highly pathogenic H5N8 avian influenza has been reported in some regions of Germany, the center immediately instructed the industry to suspend imports of poultry and poultry products from these regions (including Poultry eggs) to protect public health. A spokesperson for the center said that according to the Census and Statistics Department, Hong Kong imported about 3,900 metric tons of frozen poultry meat and about 1.41 million poultry eggs from Germany in 2020. The spokesperson pointed out that the center has contacted the German authorities about the incident and will continue ...