Import of poultry meat and products from areas in India, Chile and UK suspended

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The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department announced today (April 20) that in view of notifications from the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) about outbreaks of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza in the Bilaspur District of Chhattisgarh State in India, the Cautín Province of Araucanía Region in Chile, and the South Cambridgeshire District of Cambridgeshire County in the United Kingdom (UK), 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 Hong Kong has currently established a protocol with India for the import of poultry eggs but not for poultry meat, while a protocol has been established with Chile for the import of poultry meat but not for poultry eggs. According to the Census and Statistics Department, Hong Kong imported no eggs from India; about 1 780 tonnes of frozen poultry meat from Chile; and about 900 tonnes of chilled and frozen poultry meat and about 1.37 million poultry eggs from the UK last year.

"The CFS has contacted the Indian, Chilean and British 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.

Ends/Monday, April 20, 2026
Issued at HKT 19:30

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