Hong Kong(China) Suspends Import of Poultry Meat and Products from Parts of Poland, Sweden, and Japan
The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department of Hong Kong announced today (December 22) that, in response to notifications from the World Organisation for Animal Health, the Swedish Board of Agriculture, and the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries regarding outbreaks of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza in the Kartuzy district of the Pomeranian Voivodeship and the Poddębice district of the Łódź Voivodeship in Poland, and in Höör municipality, Sweden, as well as an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5 avian influenza in Okayama Prefecture, Japan, the CFS has immediately instructed the trade to suspend the import of poultry meat and poultry products (including poultry eggs) from the mentioned areas to safeguard public health.