South Korea banned the import of poultry and edible eggs from Belgium

Published Nov 28, 2020

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The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs in South Korea has banned the import of Belgian poultry and edible eggs due to an outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza in Belgium. The ban includes live poultry, fresh autumn poultry, and edible eggs. No records of imports of Belgian poultry and eggs exist yet as they were only recently allowed to be imported in October. The ministry emphasized that it will increase its surveillance for livestock diseases from other countries to prevent their spread to South Korea.

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(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Go Eun-ji = The import of Belgian poultry and edible eggs, where highly pathogenic avian influenza (AI) occurred, was banned. The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs announced on the 28th that the Belgian government has banned the import of Belgian poultry (chicken, ducks, birds, etc.) and edible eggs as the Belgian government announced that a highly pathogenic AI occurred in local broiler farms. The Belgian Federal Food Safety Authority announced that it discovered that H5N5-type AI had occurred in a broiler farm in Menen city, western Flanderan, bordering France, and took quarantine measures such as killing. The targets of the import ban are: live poultry (including pet birds and wild birds), fresh autumn poultry (chicks), and edible eggs. Belgian poultry and edible eggs were allowed to be imported in October, so there is no import record yet, and poultry meat is banned. An official from the Ministry of Agriculture and Food said, ...

Source: Yna