Belarusian Ministry of Agriculture and Food Veterinary and Food Surveillance announced that Belarus will temporarily suspend import of poultry meat from Guangdong, China.

The agency explained that a report of a highly pathogenic bird flu case was found in Guangdong, China. As a result, Belarus has temporarily enacted restrictions on imports from Guangdong, China, since September 20. Restricted imports include live poultry, eggs, feathers and feathers, as well as all poultry products, poultry feed and feed additives, as well as poultry breeding. All equipment used for breeding and slaughter.

At the same time, the previously issued import license for goods from China (Guangdong) will be revoked. The Belarusian authorities explained this, and Guangdong Province has culled more than 67,000 domestic ducks. The first case of bird flu was discovered on September 11. In the short term, there were about 14,000 poultry infected with bird flu, and the number of deaths exceeded 6,000. Due to the rapid spread of bird flu, the Guangdong Provincial Government has passed resolutions to cull all poultry.

In mid-August, Ukraine has ordered the complete ban on the importation of poultry meat from the provinces and cities that have discovered the highly pathogenic bird flu epidemic in China. Belarus will no longer import poultry meat from China in large quantities. However, according to the rules for the circulation of poultry products of the Customs Union countries, if one of the member states issues a ban on the import of a country’s products, the ban will automatically take effect in other member states. This shows that not only Belarus, but even Russia and Kazakhstan will also stop importing poultry products from China.