Hong Kong bans import of poultry meat and products from Province of Padua in Italy (18.9.2017)
The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department announced today (September 18) that in view of a notification from the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) about an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N8 avian influenza in the Province of Padua in Italy, the CFS has banned the import of poultry meat and products (including poultry eggs) from the province with immediate effect to protect public health in Hong Kong.
