New policy to limit potential bans on US poultry exports to South Korea
As a result of this regionalization policy, only the states affected by the disease will not be able to export poultry products to this country, allowing the rest of the US to continue the shipments of poultry and eggs to the Korean market, according to the National Chicken Council.
“The U.S. has one of the most stringent surveillance, eradication and monitoring programs in the world when it comes to avian disease,” said National Chicken Council (NCC) President Mike Brown. “I want to thank our administration for their efforts in working with the South Koreans to adopt this policy of regionalization.”
“The U.S. now becomes the world’s most reliable supplier of poultry products to Korea,” added Jim Sumner, president of the USA Poultry & Egg Council (USAPEEC). “No other country has such a regionalization agreement with Korea. We should now become their No. 1 outside supplier of chicken, turkey, eggs and egg products.”
The NCC applauds the efforts conducted by the International Services and Veterinary Services at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), which encouraged Korea to follow OIE (World Organization of Animal Health) guidelines, and provided assurances that the U.S. has a reliable system in place to assure that any future outbreaks would be contained.
In 2014 and 2015 the US reported a major outbreak of HPAI, which resulted in export restrictions to the Korean market, even though only a number of states were affected by the disease. This outbreak cost the American poultry industry an estimated $4.2 billion in lost exports and U.S. domestic sales. Of that total, about $387 million, or 9.2 percent, can be attributed to South Korea.
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