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Japan lifts the ban on poultry imports from Missouri, USA

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The Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries recently announced it has canceled the temporary import suspension measures for poultry and poultry meat imports from the Missouri state in the United States.

Posted on Aug 21 ,13:57

Japan lifts the ban on poultry imports from Missouri, USA

The Japanese authorities have decided to lift the ban after they received confirmation that the state of Missouri is avian influenza free.

"We have confirmed the cleanliness of the same disease in poultry in the same province by the information of the epidemic measures etc. of avian influenza in the state provided to the country by the United States Government. For this reason, we canceled the temporary import suspension measures as of today," the ministry's statement read.

Japan has imposed temporary restrictions on the import of poultry and poultry meat from Missouri in 1990 when the state was hit by a low-pathogenic avian influenza (H7 subtype) outbreak.

According to the statistics released by the US Department of Agriculture (2017) (2017), the proportion of Missouri in the total production of the United States is about 3.3% for broilers, about 2.9 for eggs %.

Photo Source: Flickr/USDA photo from Lance Cheung

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