BACOLOD CITY -- The Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI) Veterinary Quarantine Services in Region 6 has assigned two quarantine officers at BREDCO port here as part of the efforts to prevent the entry of poultry products from Luzon.
The Department of Agriculture (DA) has ordered the banning of fowl shipment from Luzon to other parts of the country following the bird flu outbreak in San Luis town, Pampanga last week.
Executive Assistant Ernie Pineda, cluster head on markets, on Thursday said that in case shipment of chicken or eggs from Luzon would be intercepted, the items would be automatically burned or discarded.
Earlier this week, the BAI in Negros Oriental ordered the disposal of embryonated eggs or “balut” shipped from Pangasinan to Dumaguete City.
For her part, Dr. Grace Tan, head of the City Health Office Environmental Sanitation Division, urged Bacolod residents to report poultry farms with death cases of chicken or ducks for investigation.
According to the DA, all birds, including chickens, birds, ducks, pigeons, quails, within a one-kilometer radius of the affected farms in Pampanga will have to be culled.
Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piñol had earlier said the ban on the shipment of poultry meat and poultry products from Luzon to the rest of the country was an aggressive step to contain the spread of avian influenza to other parts of the country.
The ban will be temporary and will be lifted as soon as experts conclude that the risk of spreading the virus has been eliminated, he added.
However, since there is no outbreak in the Visayas and Mindanao, Piñol said the shipment of poultry and poultry products from these areas to Luzon would be allowed.(PNA)
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