The Department of Agriculture (DA) has temporarily stopped importation of poultry and other poultry products from Iowa and North Dakota because of avian influenza outbreak in the two American states.

Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala ordered the ban on the importation of domestic and wild birds, including poultry meat, day-old chicks, eggs and semen to protect the local poultry population and human health.

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