Hong Kong suspends chicken and egg imports from specific areas of South Africa, Canada, and the Netherlands

게시됨 2022년 10월 20일

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The Center for Food Safety (CFS) of Hong Kong's Department of Food and Environmental Hygiene has suspended the importation of meat and poultry products, including chicken eggs, from several areas in South Africa, Canada, and the Netherlands due to outbreaks of H5N1 avian influenza. This decision is aimed at protecting public health in Hong Kong. Despite a recent protocol established with South Africa for importing poultry, no chicken meat was imported from the country to Hong Kong in the first half of this year. Hong Kong also imported limited amounts of frozen chicken meat from Canada and the Netherlands during the same period. The CFS will continue to liaise with the relevant authorities and take necessary actions in response to the ongoing avian influenza situation.

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The Center for Food Safety (CFS) of the Department of Food and Environmental Hygiene (FEHD) announced yesterday, 19, that in view of the notifications from the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) on outbreaks of H5N1 avian influenza from highly pathogenic in Harry Gwala Township KwaZulu-Natal Province and Sedibeng District Municipality of Gauteng Province in South Africa, Lumsden Rural Municipality No. 189 and Redburn Rural Municipality No. 130 of Saskatchewan Province and Les Jardins Regional Municipality -de-Napierville Municipality of the Province of Quebec in Canada and Province of Zuid-Holland in the Netherlands, determined the suspension of the importation of meat and poultry products (including chicken eggs) from the aforementioned areas, with immediate effect to protect health public in Hong Kong. A spokesperson for CFS said Hong Kong had recently established a protocol with South Africa for importing poultry but not eggs. According to the Bureau of Census and ...

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