Manila has imposed temporary import bans on 9 trade partners that have confirmed bird flu outbreaks to protect the domestic poultry industry from the transboundary animal disease.
The Department of Agriculture issued six separate memorandum orders that temporarily suspended the importation of poultry products from Poland, Ireland, Denmark, Czech Republic, Chinese Taipei, Ecuador, Moldova, Peru, and Ukraine.
“There is a need to prevent the entry of the HPAI virus to protect the health of the local poultry population,” Senior Agriculture Undersecretary Domingo F. Panganiban said in MOs 80 to 85. The imported items covered by the temporary import ban are domestic and wild birds including their poultry meat, day-old chicks, eggs and semen, based on the documents.
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