BEIJING, Oct 1 (Bernama)
-- China has ordered all poultry imports and relative products shipped from
Canada after Sept 23, be returned or destroyed to ward off the H7N3 avian
influenza virus, Xinhua news agency said in its report on Monday.
The decision jointly made by the Ministry of Agriculture and the General
Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine came two
days after the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) released an
outbreak alert, saying that the highly pathogenic virus has been confirmed
in a chicken broiler breeder flock in Saskatchewan.
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The Paris-based
international organization warned that approximately 540 roosters have died
in one barn containing approximately 600 birds.
Another 49,100 roosters
and broiler breeders held in other nine barns nearby are susceptible.
To remedy the situation, China has imposed an import ban on all poultry and
relative products from Canada and required relevant local governmental
departments to seal up all Canadian poultry and relative products carried by
airplanes, ships or trains from abroad that must stop over in or transit
China.
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Illegal poultry imports from
Canada must be destroyed under the supervision of entry-exit inspection and
quarantine departments.
China has decided to restore as of Sunday the imports of animals with cloven
hooves and relative products from Santa Catarina, Acre and the cities of Rio
Grande do Sul and Rondonia of Amazon in Brazil as these regions have been
confirmed by the OIE as free from the foot-and-mouth disease. -- BERNAMA |
