Import of poultry meat and products from Karachayevo-Cherkesskaya Respublika in Russia suspended (29.9.2020)
The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department announced today (September 29) that in view of a notification from the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) about an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5 avian influenza in Karachayevo-Cherkesskaya Respublika in Russia, the CFS has instructed the trade to suspend the import of poultry meat and products (including poultry eggs) from the above area with immediate effect to protect public health in Hong Kong.
