China - Hong Kong plans to lift import ban on live chickens from the Mainland in Mid-June after H7N9 outbreak - Ban still in force due to H7N9 fears:

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In mid-June, Hong Kong intends to re-import of live chickens from the mainland
At 16:03 on June 2nd, 2014 Xinhua News Agency Comments jackpot (42 participants) collections this article
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　　[Hong Kong in mid-June intend to re-live chicken imports from the mainland, Hong Kong SAR Government] Secretary for Food and Health Ko Wing Man 2, said the Government plans to re-enter the mainland chickens time has not changed, still the middle of June. To reduce the risk of avian influenza, the Government suspended live poultry imports from the mainland four months since February 18.

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Ban not lifted yet

Ban not lifted yet

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KO: The Government intends to publish within two weeks of live chickens to Hong Kong Mainland recovery arrangements
2014-07-08 13:06:53 Source: Xinhua Review
According to Hong Kong, "Wen Wei Po" reported that the Government originally planned to resume in mid-June mainland live chickens to Hong Kong, but has yet to recover.

Hong Kong Secretary for Food and Health Ko Wing-man said that it will send to the mainland to discuss matters relating to the supply of live chickens, live chickens from the mainland will be announced recovery arrangements for Hong Kong within two weeks. In addition, he also acknowledged that this year's public consultation scheduled to be extended to the voluntary health insurance plan, will be postponed to October this year, was launched, if the proposal was accepted by the people, it will legislate as soon as possible.

Ko Wing Man yesterday (the 7th) after attending a radio program to respond to the resumption of supply of live chickens progress mainland. He said that the Government will announce in the next two weeks to follow up the situation, the authorities stressed that the most important stage of work is to control the risk of avian influenza infection in Hong Kong under threat. He also said that the authorities must be on live chickens supply chain, taking a number of risk management.

He said that even though a number of risk management work, live bird markets in Hong Kong can not ensure "zero risk", there may still be some situations, it may in poultry farms, wholesale or retail outlets detected avian influenza virus-positive samples. Whenever the discovery of bird flu virus samples were positive, public health must take further risk management measures may involve chickens supply chain temporarily stop working, these measures are likely to impact on the industry. He stressed that the impact will be and will try to minimize the impact caused by the industry, the industry hopes to understand

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