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EU to import poultry from Philippines
The Philippine Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI)
director, Davinio Catbagan, said the European Union (EU) is interested in
importing poultry from the Philippines after carefully inspecting quarantine
procedures there.
"There's a poultry market in
Europe , but Europe is
strict in sanitary rules. If we comply with their requirements, it will be a big
score for us," he said.
The Philippine poultry industry wants to make a
bigger comeback in the export market for poultry after suffering a blow from
Japan's ban on poultry import from the country in July 2005 owing to local
reports of the presence of low pathogenic
avian influenza
.
The
Philippines exported about 1,500 mt of poultry
products to Japan in 2004, but
BAI does not have
an estimate yet on this year's poultry export after Japan lifted the ban in May
this year.
Editor WorldPoultry
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