The Centre for Food Safety of the Hong Kong Food and Environmental Hygiene Department announced on November 9 that in response to a notification from the World Organization for Animal Health, alleging an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N9 avian influenza in Yeoncheon County, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, and an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza in parts of the United States, the Centre immediately instructed the industry to suspend imports of poultry meat and poultry products from relevant regions to protect public health. According to the Census and Statistics Department, Hong Kong imported about 80 tonnes of refrigerated poultry meat and 11.48 million poultry eggs from South Korea in the first nine months of this year, and about 33,270 tonnes of chilled and frozen poultry meat and about 92.33 million poultry eggs from the US.

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