The Centre for Food Safety of the Hong Kong Food and Environmental Hygiene Department announced today that in response to the World Organization for Animal Health's notification that the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza outbreak occurred in Kittitas County, Washington State, the Centre immediately instructed the industry to suspend imports of poultry meat and poultry products from the region to protect public health in Hong Kong. A spokesman for the Centre said that according to data from the Census and Statistics Department, Hong Kong imported about 33,270 tonnes of chilled and frozen poultry meat and about 92.33 million poultry eggs from the US in the first nine months of this year. The spokesperson said that the center has contacted the US authorities about the incident and will continue to closely monitor the news of the bird flu outbreak issued by the World Organization for Animal Health and relevant authorities to take appropriate action in response to the development of the local epidemic.

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