Hong Kong Food Safety Centre: Import of poultry meats in Veneto and Lombardy areas of Italy are suspended
The Center for Food Safety (Centre) of the Hong Kong Food and Environmental Hygiene Department announced on June 24 that in response to the notification by the World Organization for Animal Health, there were outbreaks of low pathogenicity H7N1 in the Veneto region of Treviso province and H5N3 in the Lombardy region of Mantua province, Italy. The center immediately instructed the industry to suspend the import of poultry meat and poultry products (including poultry eggs) from the above areas to protect public health in Hong Kong.
The Centre said that according to the Census and Statistics Department, Hong Kong imported about 100 kilograms of chilled poultry meat, 140 metric tons of frozen poultry meat and 6,000 poultry eggs from Italy in the first three months of this year.
香港食物环境卫生署食物安全中心（中心）六月二十四日宣布，因应世界动物卫生组织通报指意大利特雷维索省威尼托地区及曼图亚省伦巴第地区分别爆发低致病性H7N1及低致病性H5N3禽流感，中心即时指示业界暂停从上述地区进口禽肉及禽类产品（包括禽蛋），以保障本港公众健康。
中心发言人说，根据政府统计处的资料，今年首三个月本港从意大利进口约一百公斤冰鲜禽肉、一百四十公吨冷藏禽肉及六千只禽蛋。
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