USDA: China stops importing California poultry

Introduction: China has suspended the import of poultry meat from California, the United States, due to the outbreak of a highly contagious bird disease, a spokesman for the U.S Department of Agriculture said Wednesday As of November 29, China suspended imports of poultry meat and poultry products from California, according to Jim Rogers, spokesman for the U.S Department of agriculture's animal and plant health inspection agency On October 1, the virus was confirmed in chicken in two parts of Los Angeles, known as exogenous Newcastle disease Since then, the U.S Department of agriculture and California authorities have ordered the destruction of more than 300 sites of chicken and other poultry Most of these sites are small-scale backyard chickens According to a spokesman for the U.S Department of agriculture in Los Angeles, the virus has not yet spread to commercial poultry production plants in California In 1971, the outbreak of the virus caused heavy losses to commercial chicken farms in California, destroying nearly 12 million birds Although the virus does not pose a serious threat to humans, it can cause the death of birds within days According to the data of the United States Department of agriculture's world trade volume, China imported US poultry worth 37 million US dollars in 2001, and US poultry worth 22 million US dollars in the first seven months of 2002 But California is not the main source of supply (author:) share to feed Weibo share to: