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    Hong Kong Centre for Food Safety: Import of poultry meat and products from parts of Poland and South Korea suspended

    • Last Update: 2022-03-03
    • Source: Internet
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    The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) of theHong Kong Food and Environmental Hygiene Department announced on February 10 that, in response to a notification from the Polish Veterinary Inspection Service, an outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza in the S ę poleński district of Kujawi- Pomerania, Poland , And the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Livestock and Food of the Republic of Korea announced that highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza broke out in Boryeong City , Chungcheongnam - do and Pyeongtaek City, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea .
    to protect public health in Hong Kong .
     
    A spokesman for the CFS said that according to the Census and Statistics Department, Hong Kong imported about 4,460 tonnes of frozen poultry meat and about 30.
    2 million eggs from Poland last year, and about 20 tonnes of frozen poultry from South Korea last year.
    Meat and about 840,000 eggs
    .

     
    "The CFS has contacted the Polish and South Korean authorities over the incident, and will continue to closely monitor the information issued by the OIE and relevant authorities on the outbreak of avian influenza, and take appropriate action in response to the development of the local epidemic," the spokesman said
    .
    The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) of theHong Kong Food and Environmental Hygiene Department announced on February 10 that, in response to a notification from the Polish Veterinary Inspection Service, an outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza in the S ę poleński district of Kujawi- Pomerania, Poland , And the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Livestock and Food of the Republic of Korea announced that highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza broke out in Boryeong City , Chungcheongnam - do and Pyeongtaek City, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea .
    to protect public health in Hong Kong .
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    A spokesman for the CFS said that according to the Census and Statistics Department, Hong Kong imported about 4,460 tonnes of frozen poultry meat and about 30.
    2 million eggs from Poland last year, and about 20 tonnes of frozen poultry from South Korea last year.
    Meat and about 840,000 eggs
    .

     
      "The CFS has contacted the Polish and South Korean authorities over the incident, and will continue to closely monitor the information issued by the OIE and relevant authorities on the outbreak of avian influenza, and take appropriate action in response to the development of the local epidemic," the spokesman said
    .
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