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Hong Kong halts poultry imports from a Swedish county over AI fears

Hygiene & Biosecurity

Hong Kong's Centre for Food Safety (CFS) of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department has urged meat traders to suspend imports from Skåne County in Sweden after another outbreak of low-pathogenic H5 avian influenza (AI) has been detected in this region.

Posted on Jun 04 ,09:55

Hong Kong halts poultry imports from a Swedish county over AI fears

CFS has instructed traders to suspend the import of poultry meat and products, including poultry eggs, from the area with immediate effect to protect public health in Hong Kong.

The ban comes after the Hong Kong authorities received a notification from the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) about the AI outbreak in the Swedish county.

A CFS spokesman said that Hong Kong imported about 0.3 tonnes of frozen poultry meat and 218,000 poultry eggs from Sweden in the first three months of this year.

"The CFS has contacted the Swedish authorities over the issue and will closely monitor information issued by the OIE on avian influenza outbreaks. Appropriate action will be taken in response to the development of the situation," the spokesman said.

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