South Korea prohibited the import of poultry from Denmark and France out of highly pathogenic AI

(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Eunji Go = Imports of poultry from Denmark and France, where highly pathogenic avian influenza (AI) occurred, were banned. The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs announced on the 17th that the Danish and French governments have banned the import of poultry and poultry meat from these countries as they announced that a highly pathogenic AI has occurred in their poultry farms. In Denmark, H5N8-type AI occurred at a broiler breeder farm in the city of Raners in the central Willan Peninsula, and in France, the same type of AI occurred at a poultry market in Haute-Corse in the northern province of Corsica. The targets for the import ban are live poultry (including pet and wild birds), freshly fresh poultry (chick), poultry breeding eggs and edible eggs, poultry meat and poultry products such as chicken or duck meat. It was found that out of the currently imported and quarantined goods, poultry and poultry from Denmark and France were not ...