Exports
The Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service reports that on Dec. 7 the Veterinary Service at Kyrgyzstan’s Ministry of Agriculture informed the USDA that it will no longer accept the USDA’s meat and poultry export certificate of wholesomeness and continuation sheet (forms 9060-5 and 9060-5B) or the fish and fish products export certificate of wholesomeness (form 9060-5S). FAS states that it is actively engaged in trying to reopen this market.
Poultry from Canada
The USDA’s Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is restricting the importation of poultry, commercial birds, ratites, avian hatching eggs, unprocessed avian products and byproducts, and certain fresh poultry products originating from or transiting the following zones in Canada based on determinations that highly-pathogenic avian influenza exists in domestic birds in those zones.
- PCZ-219 in Saskatchewan (Nov. 15)
- PCZ-220 in British Columbia (Nov. 23)
- PCA-222 in Alberta (Nov. 24)
- PCZ-221 in British Columbia (Nov. 25)
- PCZ-223 and -224 in Alberta (Nov. 27)
- PCZ-225 in Quebec (Dec. 4)
- PCZ-226 in Alberta (Dec. 5)
Processed avian products and byproducts originating from or transiting any restricted area, imported as cargo, must be accompanied by an APHIS import permit and/or government certification confirming that the products were treated according to APHIS requirements. Further, importation as cargo of fresh, unprocessed shell/table eggs and other egg products, void of the shell (i.e., liquid eggs, dried egg whites), originating from or transiting any restricted zone is prohibited unless the products are consigned from the port of arrival directly to an APHIS-approved breaking and pasteurization facility. An import permit and/or certificate is not required for these shipments when consigned directly to an APHIS-approved establishment.
Separately, effective Dec. 13 APHIS has removed these restrictions on imports originating from or transiting zones PCZ-198 in Alberta, PCZ-201 in Quebec, and PCZ-202 and -203 in Saskatchewan after the HPAI outbreaks in these zones were completely resolved.
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