Hong Kong bans eggs from Cambodia

5 February 2013
The Phnom Penh Post
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Hong Kong has banned egg imports from Cambodia due to the country’s recent avian influenza outbreak, which claimed four lives last month. … “Hong Kong does not import live poultry or poultry meat from Cambodia, but 170,000 poultry eggs were imported from there last year,” the site says. … Sonny Krishnan, communications officer for the World Health Organization in Cambodia, said yesterday that the ban was “understandable” but probably unnecessary, since Cambodia’s egg exports came from commercial farms and not the “backyard” sources of the outbreak. …

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