June 27, 2007

Russia bans poultry imports from Czech Republic

Russia's Federal Veterinary and Phytosanitary Control Service (Rosselkhoznadzor) has banned poultry imports from the Czech Republic after reports of bird flu.

Restrictions will apply to imports of live birds and incubation eggs, and to all kinds of poultry that were not thermally treated, feeds and feed additives for birds, and used poultry equipment.

Poultry products from the Czech Republic have also been banned by Ukraine.

Outbreaks of the highly pathogenic H5 bird flu strain were diagnosed in turkeys at a poultry farm in the country, where about 1,800 birds died from the disease last week and about 4,000 were culled.