DR Continues to Impose Restrictive Import Policies on US Poultry, USDA Says
The Dominican Republic is continuing to ban imports of U.S. poultry from states with “any type of detection” of highly pathogenic avian influenza, even if the outbreak was reported as “non-poultry,” USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service said in a Nov. 8…
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report. USDA said DR officials “continue to hold to a different interpretation” of the section of the World Organization for Animal Health that defines poultry and non-poultry outbreaks, adding the Caribbean nation believes non-poultry detections “represent a high risk of disease transfer” to its domestic industry. But the DR is allowing imports of certain U.S. poultry on a case-by-case basis if the importer can provide a traceability certificate “that states the origin of all poultry flock processed within a facility,” USDA said. The agency also noted that all U.S. poultry exports require an import license from the DR through the “electronic VUCE system prior to shipment.”