Hong Kong halts poultry imports from UK, Japan and Germany
CFS suspends trade after HPAI notifications from three countries
26 November 2025
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By: Hong Kong's Centre for Food Safety (CFS) of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department announced on Monday that it has suspended imports of poultry meat and products, including eggs, from several avian influenza-affected regions. The move follows notifications from the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Japan’s Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries and the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH).
The alerts concerned outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza in the Bangor Townland area of Northern Ireland, Miyazaki Prefecture in Japan and an H5N1 outbreak in the District of Coesfeld in Germany. The CFS said imports from these areas are suspended with immediate effect to protect public health in Hong Kong.
A CFS spokesperson said that, according to the Census and Statistics Department, Hong Kong imported about 770 tonnes of chilled and frozen poultry meat and about 1.17 million poultry eggs from the UK in the first nine months of this year. During the same period, the city imported about 1,540 tonnes of frozen poultry meat and around 219.73 million eggs from Japan, as well as about 60 tonnes of frozen poultry meat from Germany.
“The CFS has contacted the British, Japanese and German authorities over the issues and will closely monitor information issued by the WOAH and the relevant authorities on the avian influenza outbreaks. Appropriate action will be taken in response to the development of the situation,” the spokesperson said.
