Hong Kong's Center for Food Safety of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department announced on Wednesday that the import of poultry meat and products, including poultry eggs from South Korea will be banned with immediate effect for the protection of Hong Kong's public and animal health.
The department said that in view of notifications from the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) that outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza were detected in various parts of South Korea since January this year, the import of poultry meat and products from the country will be banned.
"We will continue to closely monitor information issued by the OIE on the avian influenza outbreaks and the latest situation in the country," a spokesman of the department said.
