00:00 The Department of Agriculture or DA has banned the importation of poultry and other poultry products including wild birds from Belgium and France.
00:09 This after two European nations reported to the World Organization for Animal Health their respective outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza in domestic birds.
00:19 The import bans has started on January 8th which also prevent traders from bringing in Belgian and French poultry products including poultry meat, day-old chicks, hatching eggs and poultry semen in the country.
