Philippines lifts ban on importing birds and poultry products from California and South Dakota

Published Aug 31, 2024

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The Philippines' Department of Agriculture has lifted the ban on importing domestic, wild birds, and poultry products from California and South Dakota, following the absence of new avian influenza outbreaks since May and June. This decision, formalized by Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr. through Memorandum Order No. 37, comes after initial bans due to H5N1 outbreaks. The poultry sector, a key part of Philippine agriculture, saw a 2% production increase in the first half of the year, with Central Luzon, CALABARZON, and Northern Mindanao leading in bird inventories.

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The Philippines, through the Department of Agriculture (DA), has lifted the ban on the importation of domestic, wild birds, and poultry products from the states of California and South Dakota in the US. In a statement on Saturday, the DA said Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr. signed Memorandum Order No. 37 early this week to allow the importation of wild and domestic birds, including poultry products such as meat, hatching eggs, day-old chicks, and semen to be used for artificial insemination from the two US states. The lifting of the importation ban was ordered after the two American states didn’t report any new outbreak of avian influenza since June and May this year, respectively. The temporary ban on birds and poultry products from California was imposed in January, while the similar ban for birds coming from South Dakota was implemented in November last year. The importation bans were imposed by the DA after confirmed outbreaks of H5N1 subtype of the Highly ...

Source: Gmanetwork