According to a press release from the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government, the Centre for Food Safety of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department announced today that in response to separate notifications from the World Organization for Animal Health and the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan, the Centre immediately instructed the industry to suspend imports of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza from these regions and the North Rhine-Westphalia district of Kalisz in Poland, Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire, England, and Perth County, Ontario, Canada, and the outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza in Saitama Prefecture, Japan. Poultry meat and poultry products to protect public health in Hong Kong.

According to a press release from the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government, the Centre for Food Safety of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department announced today that in response to separate notifications from the World Organization for Animal Health and the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan, the Centre immediately instructed the industry to suspend imports of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza from these regions and the North Rhine-Westphalia district of Kalisz in Poland, Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire, England, and Perth County, Ontario, Canada, and the outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza in Saitama Prefecture, Japan. Poultry meat and poultry products to protect public health in Hong Kong.