Alberta eggs and poultry have temporarily lost access to an Asian trading partner.
Hong Kong’s Centre for Food Safety (CFS) which under the Food and Environment Hygiene Department is responsible for ensuring food is safe, suspended the import of poultry meat and eggs from Alberta after “a notification from the World Organisation for Animal Health about an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza in Special Area No. 4 of the Province of Alberta in Canada…,” CFS said.
Special Area No. 4 in Alberta includes the village of Consort and smaller hamlets like Compeer, Altario, and Loyalist.