Poultry cargo from Turkey destined for DRC potentially infected with avian flu

[Pathfinder]

Translation Google

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


http://acpcongo.com/acp/les-consomm...provenance-de-la-turquie-jusqua-nouvel-ordre/

 

[Pathfinder]

Translation Google

Bird flu infected chickens have not entered the DRC, according to OCC

published there 1 hour, 24 minutes | Last Update July 2, 2015 at 5:28 |

Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Congolese Control Office (OCC), Moussa Kalema, said, Thursday, July 2, that the cargo of chickens potentially infected by bird flu has not arrived in the Democratic Republic of Congo ( DRC). These poultry from Turkey are locked in Pointe-Noire in the Republic of Congo.

"We can say loud that the container is indeed at Pointe Noire. This container exported by Mr. Okan as exporter, importer is Indycom in France. The country of origin was Turkey, the country of destination is the Congo [DRC]. So the container was not only for the DRC but also ifor Congo Brazzaville. So it is stationed at Pointe Noire because the DRC had seized Interpol. This cargo has not entered in the DRC, "said Moussa Kalema.

More than 25 tons of poultry meat "possibly infected with bird flu," had left Turkey to the port of Matadi (DRC) via the port of Pointe Noire (Congo). The Turkish government, which launched the alert, asked Kinshasa to stem this cargo to preserve human lives.

Kalema Moussa said that the DRC has requested the return of the container of these chickens to Turkey.

"We asked that the container is returned to its country of origin. The container did not arrived here, and if that happened we would grasp it. For proof you see the requisition of the prosecutor. And so we asked that the container to be returned to the country"added Moussa Kalema.

The Congolese Ministry of Commerce, banned since Sunday 14 June, the import and marketing in the DRC of the Turkish poultry meat.

A suspicion has since won the Kinshasa population who does not consume as much chickens as before, even those who are not of Turkish origin.

...
http://radiookapi.net/actualite/201...nfectes-ne-sont-pas-entres-en-rdc-selon-locc/

 

[Pathfinder]

Translation Google

The Turkish ambassador present to the government the results of analyzes on poultry

July 8th, 2015

Kinshasa, 08/07 (ACP) .- The Turkish ambassador to DRC, Bekir Uysal, presented Wednesday in Kinshasa, to Ms Nefertiti Ngudianza Bayokisa, Minister of Foreign Trade, the results of analyzes carried out in his country on poultry therefore came a warning from his country on a small batch of chickens potentially infected with bird flu to the DRC.

In this regard, the Congolese authorities had taken preventive measures and no chicken has entered the DRC, said the Turkish diplomat, arguing that "after long analysis by our Department of Agriculture and other experts, it isn't bird flu. Turkey is healthy from the disease. WHO will confirm it. Avian flu in our country has already been eradicated. "

Mr. Bekir Uysal called on traders to be calm and to the Congolese people to eat chicken.

ACP / FNG / Kayu / Wet

http://acpcongo.com/acp/lambassadeu...ent-le-resultat-des-analyses-sur-la-volaille/

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Turkey - H5N1 Avian Flu Outbreaks in Birds - 2015

https://flutrackers.com/forum/forum...turkey-h5n1-avian-flu-outbreaks-in-birds-2015