The Center for Food Safety (CFS) of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department in Hong Kong said Tuesday that it has banned the import of poultry meat and products including poultry eggs from the U.S. state of Nebraska and Turkey's Manisa Province.
The ban came after the declaration of a state of emergency by the U.S. region due to outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza, and a notification from the World Organization for Animal Health about an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza in the Turkish region.
A CFS spokesman said that Hong Kong imported about 267,000 tons of chilled and frozen poultry meat and about 530 million poultry eggs from the U.S. in 2014.
However, no poultry meat or poultry eggs were imported from Turkey in the same period.
"Appropriate action will be taken in response to the development of the situation," the spokesman said.
