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Congolese consumers asked to refrain from eating the chickens from Turkey until further notice
June 25th, 2015 ?
Kinshasa, June 25 ACP) .- The president of the Consumers Association of foodstuffs (ASCOVI), Patrice Musoko Mbuyi, in an interview with the ACP Thursday in Kinshasa, Congo invited consumers to refrain from eating broiler meat from Turkey until further notice.
Patrice Musoko said that in correspondence dated 29 May 2015 addressed to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the DRC, the Embassy of the Republic of Turkey in the DRC reports that the Ministry of Food, the agriculture and livestock of the country identified a poultry cargo destined for the DRC as potentially infected with avian flu.
This is, according to the source, a batch of 25,100 kg of meat exported by the Turkish company Okan Tavuk?uluk, based in France.
Patrice Mukoko indicated that the same letter emphasizes that following the slaughter those poultry between 8 and 10 May 2015, the Departmental Directorate of Food, Agriculture and Livestock of the same country had issued a certificate Health for export bearing the number 4515428, dated May 14 of this year.
The source noted that the samples taken during an inspection in the above company were subsequently tested positive for the bird flu virus and the Departmental was then immediately ordered a recall of those products strictly the company in question but was informed that the consignment in question had already left Turkey for the DRC.
The president of the ASCOVI stresses that in the same letter, the Turkish authorities are asking the Congolese authorities to refuse entry on Congolese soil of that cargo in order to safeguard human and animal health. ACP / ZNG / Ndom / Fmb
Congolese consumers asked to refrain from eating the chickens from Turkey until further notice
June 25th, 2015 ?
Kinshasa, June 25 ACP) .- The president of the Consumers Association of foodstuffs (ASCOVI), Patrice Musoko Mbuyi, in an interview with the ACP Thursday in Kinshasa, Congo invited consumers to refrain from eating broiler meat from Turkey until further notice.
Patrice Musoko said that in correspondence dated 29 May 2015 addressed to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the DRC, the Embassy of the Republic of Turkey in the DRC reports that the Ministry of Food, the agriculture and livestock of the country identified a poultry cargo destined for the DRC as potentially infected with avian flu.
This is, according to the source, a batch of 25,100 kg of meat exported by the Turkish company Okan Tavuk?uluk, based in France.
Patrice Mukoko indicated that the same letter emphasizes that following the slaughter those poultry between 8 and 10 May 2015, the Departmental Directorate of Food, Agriculture and Livestock of the same country had issued a certificate Health for export bearing the number 4515428, dated May 14 of this year.
The source noted that the samples taken during an inspection in the above company were subsequently tested positive for the bird flu virus and the Departmental was then immediately ordered a recall of those products strictly the company in question but was informed that the consignment in question had already left Turkey for the DRC.
The president of the ASCOVI stresses that in the same letter, the Turkish authorities are asking the Congolese authorities to refuse entry on Congolese soil of that cargo in order to safeguard human and animal health. ACP / ZNG / Ndom / Fmb
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