China News Service, Hong Kong, November 5th. The Food Safety Center of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government announced on the 5th that in response to the Japanese government’s report that a highly pathogenic H5 avian influenza has been reported in Japan’s Kagawa Prefecture, the center immediately instructed the industry to suspend imports of poultry from the region. Meat and poultry products (including poultry eggs) to protect public health in Hong Kong.
According to the Information Service of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government, a spokesperson for the center said that according to the statistics of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government’s Statistics Department, Hong Kong imported about 50 tons of chilled poultry meat, about 4,300 tons of frozen poultry and about 200 million from Japan in the first nine months of this year Poultry eggs.
A spokesperson for the center said that the center has contacted the Japanese government about the incident and will continue to closely monitor the news about the outbreak of avian influenza issued by the World Organization for Animal Health, and take appropriate actions in response to the development of the local epidemic.
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