The Department of Agriculture (DA) has temporarily suspended the importation of poultry and other poultry products from China because of reported avian influenza outbreak.

In Memorandum Order 01-14, Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala ordered the temporary ban on the importation of domestic and wild birds—including poultry meat, day old chicks, eggs and semen— originating from People’s Republic of China to protect the Philippines’ local poultry population, as well as human health.

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