HK to increase mainland live chickens imports
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2004-04-24 09:08

The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government announced in Hong Kong Friday to increase the daily quantities of imported live chickens from Chinese Mainland to 12,000 on April 25.

The government made the decision following a review on the Phase I arrangement for the resumption of Mainland imports on a pilot basis.

During Phase I, April 20-22, of the pilot arrangement, three consignments of about 6000 chickens were imported from the Mainland each day.

A spokesman for the Health, Welfare and Food Bureau said, the government have reviewed the results of the Phase I arrangement and considered that the daily quantities of imported live chickens can be increased to 12,000 on April 25 after the wholesale market rest days for a further five-day period until April 29.

Further reviews will be done on the daily quantities of live chickens to be imported towards the end of this month having regard to the latest experience, the spokesman said.

According to the spokesman, relevant departments had been closely monitoring the health conditions of the imports and the clinical examination of these chickens showed that they were in very good health conditions.

The laboratory test results for the consignments also showed that all fecal samples were negative for avian influenza H5 virus and the antibody test results of all blood samples were satisfactory, he added.

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