China's broilers are still hard to enter Switzerland after the lifting of the ban

Introduction: on April 9, the Swiss government lifted the temporary ban on Chinese imported broilers that had been implemented since February 22 due to the excessive antibiotic content However, after the lifting of the ban, the export situation of Chinese chicken to Switzerland is still not optimistic According to Thai media reports, although the Swiss government lifted the ban on Chinese chicken imports, two conditions were attached First, importers must increase the frequency of inspection of Chinese chicken farms, and second, demand an increase in the number of Chinese chickens to be inspected 40% of the broilers in the Swiss market come from China, and it is estimated that 13000 tons are imported from China every year Coop and Migros, the two importers, strictly screened the farms of Chinese broilers However, according to the import data, although they can regularly check the production facilities of Chinese broilers and basically meet the hygiene standards, they are obviously unable to take into account the feeding of chickens Importers believe that some chicken farmers are willing to overfeed their chickens with antibiotics in order to avoid production cuts caused by chicken plague According to coop, Switzerland's second-largest importer of Chinese chicken, those measures to strengthen the inspection of Chinese chicken are irrelevant The crux of the matter is that coop has decided to stop importing chickens from China and will only deal with European producers from now on, as consumer confidence in Chinese chickens has generally declined.