Hong Kong halts poultry imports from US, Japan
Suspensions follow avian influenza outbreaks
31 December 2025
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By: Hong Kong's Centre for Food Safety (CFS) of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department announced Monday that it has suspended the import of poultry meat and products from regions in the United States and Japan due to outbreaks of avian influenza. CFS cited the protection of public health as the reason for the suspension.
The affected areas include: Lewis County of the State of Washington and Jessamine County of the State of Kentucky in the US, and Ibaraki Prefecture and Hokkaido Prefecture in Japan.
A CFS spokesperson said that according to the Census and Statistics Department, Hong Kong imported about 40,060 tonnes of chilled and frozen poultry meat and about 2.62 million poultry eggs from the US, and about 1,540 tonnes of frozen poultry meat and about 219.73 million poultry eggs from Japan in the first nine months of this year.
"The CFS has contacted the American and Japanese 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.
