If the epidemic is serious, destroy all chickens in Hong Kong

Introduction: Phoenix TV news on October 28 according to Hong Kong's Ta Kung Pao, Hong Kong's food and Environment Department said yesterday that Hong Kong would not temporarily follow Macao's ban on the overnight storage of live poultry at market stalls Lao Yueyi, assistant director of the food and environmental protection department, said that because this is a very strict practice and has a great impact on the industry, Hong Kong and Macao are different There are a large number of chicken stalls and chickens in Hong Kong and it is difficult to implement it In addition, all live chickens sold locally have been vaccinated, so it is believed that no such measures need to be taken at this stage Lau Yueyi said that if there are two or more markets in Hong Kong where chickens are found to be infected with avian influenza, all live chickens in the market should be destroyed and whether there will be another supply of live chickens in the market in the future should be considered according to the situation She said that there is a consensus with the industry in this regard, and the industry also believes that if the epidemic is serious, it may be necessary to destroy all chickens in Hong Kong However, opportunities will also be arranged for healthy live chickens on local farms to be sold on the market However, it will take two weeks or even one month for them to be disinfected and fully purified in the market It is reported that the authorities have relaxed the supervision of the chicken stalls in the street market Some chicken stalls do not have rubber plates to separate people from chickens Lao Yueyi said that some days ago he had sent personnel to the relevant chicken stalls to urge the owners to take adequate measures to separate people from chickens She stressed that there was no lax regulation, and in the past two years, a total of eight chicken stalls have been terminated because they did not meet the requirements of health and safety measures At present, there are more than 500 retail chicken stalls For the time being, the authorities have no intention of forbidding the storage of live poultry at the market stalls for the night However, on the off-market day of the second day of each month, the chicken stalls must be cleared before the next off-market day Moreover, it is strictly stipulated that every kilogram of live poultry in the cage must be given a space of 300 square centimeters.