Friday, February 16, 2007

China forbids to import poultry from Britain

According to chinanews.cn, starting January 13, China will not import any more poultry and poultry products from Britain since it might contains H5N1 subtype highly pathogenic avian influenza virus in a turkey, also knows as “bird flu”. China is a big country and if the virus does spread then population might drop between 5 million and 150 million. China will return all the imported poultry and poultry products back to Britian. If any poultry or poultry products from Britain found in China, it will be destroy by the Chinese. This is a bad case for Britain but it is the law and regulation that they have to followed. In any case, it is a good thing that China clear out this issue before it add another major problem for their people.

1 Comments:

Blogger sara renn said...

This is an interesting approach to the prevention and containment of the bird flu virus from entering China. In addition to the ban on importation of poultry, I wonder if the Chinese government is implementing regulations and practices on domestic handling of poultry. In Taiwan, recent laws have made it illegal to have live chickens and ducks in markets where they have traditionally been bought and killed on the spot. So in addition to preventing the entry of H5N1 virus from entering China through imported poultry, it might also be important to implement to regulations and standards on food handling and sanitation.

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