Hong Kong resumes poultry imports after mainland bird flu
Hong Kong has resumed the import of the poultry from the previously bird flu stricken province of Liaoning, the Centre for Food Safety of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China announced.
A spokesman for the centre said that frozen poultry and egg imports will resume, as the mainland authorities have implemented measures for monitoring and control of the confirmed case of HPAI reported in Dalian city.
No further cases of HPAI infection have been reported for the area since late April.
The Centre for Food Safety of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region banned the import of poultry products in April fallowing a report of HPAI in April, suspending frozen poultry and egg imports from the province of Liaoning for 21 days.
Hong Kong retains different measures for different outbreak scenarios, for both within and outside of province of Guangdong.
Source: China Daily
Join 31,000+ subscribers
Subscribe to our newsletter to stay updated about all the need-to-know content in the poultry sector, three times a week.
