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Hong Kong Food Safety Centre: Import of poultry meat and poultry products from Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan

foodmate 2023-02-06

The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department of Hong Kong announced on February 3 that in response to the notification from the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan that there was an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5 avian influenza in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan, the CFS immediately instructed the trade to suspend the import of poultry meat and poultry products from the region (including poultry eggs) to protect public health in Hong Kong.

 
A spokesman for the CFS said that according to the Census and Statistics Department, Hong Kong imported about 1 780 tonnes of chilled and chilled poultry meat and about 413.15 million poultry eggs from Japan last year.
 
"The CFS has contacted the Japanese authorities regarding the incident and will continue to closely monitor the news of the outbreak of avian influenza from the World Organisation for Animal Health and relevant authorities, and take appropriate action in light of the development of the local epidemic," the spokesman said.

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