Jeju Island in South Korea bans imports of poultry meat and products from Jeonbuk from the 4th

(Jeju = Yonhap News) Reporter Byeon Ji-cheol = Jeju Island announced on the 3rd that it will ban the import of poultry meat and products from Jeonbuk from 0:00 on the 4th. The ban on imports follows the confirmation of highly pathogenic avian influenza (AI) at a meat duck farm in Gochang-gun, Jeollabuk-do. The province currently bans live poultry from other cities and provinces, as well as poultry products from Chungnam, North, Gangwon, Gyeonggi, Jeonnam, and Ulsan, from being brought into the province. As the ban on importing poultry products has expanded to Jeonbuk following Ulsan with this measure, poultry products produced and processed in places other than those areas must be reported to the Animal Hygiene Testing Center in advance with supporting documents such as a certificate of production area (☎ 064-710-8551∼ 2), and can be brought in only when there is no problem after checking at the airport or port. However, heated products or imported livestock products can be ...