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Import of poultry meat and products from areas in US, Poland, Denmark and Italy suspended
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     The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department announced today (October 21) that in view of notifications from the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) about outbreaks of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza in Calhoun County of the State of Iowa in the United States (US), the Węgorzewo District of the Warmińsko-Mazurskie Region in Poland, Slagelse Municipality in Denmark and the Province of Alessandria of the Piemonte Region in Italy, the CFS has instructed the trade to suspend the import of poultry meat and products (including poultry eggs) from the above-mentioned areas with immediate effect to protect public health in Hong Kong.

     A CFS spokesman said that according to the Census and Statistics Department, Hong Kong imported about 24 650 tonnes of chilled and frozen poultry meat, and about 1.61 million poultry eggs from the US; about 1 730 tonnes of frozen poultry meat from Poland; about 210 tonnes of frozen poultry meat, and about 150 000 poultry eggs from Denmark; and about 60 tonnes of frozen poultry meat, and about 10 000 poultry eggs from Italy in the first six months of this year. 

     "The CFS has contacted the American, Polish, Danish and Italian authorities over the issues and will closely monitor information issued by the WOAH and the relevant authorities on the avian influenza outbreaks. Appropriate action will be taken in response to the development of the situation," the spokesman said.
 
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