[Shenzhen Business Daily] (Reporter de icing) Recently, two cases of human infection with H5N6 avian influenza were confirmed successively in the non restricted area of poultry trade in our city. On December 12, the Municipal Food Safety Office issued the Notice, clearly implementing the requirements of the market closure notice. During the market closure period, it will focus on the illegal killing and trading of live birds. In addition, the city will immediately start the work of expanding the restricted areas and incorporate the remaining areas into the sales prohibition organizations. This means that Shenzhen will ban the sale of live birds throughout the city in the future.
On January 12, 2016, the Shenzhen Food Safety Office again issued an emergency notice. The Notice requires that all districts and new districts in the city, on the basis of strict implementation of the preliminary work deployment, specify that Bao'an District, Longgang District, Guangming New District and Dapeng New District implement the requirements of the city closure notice, and organize urban management, law enforcement, market supervision and other departments to notify the market, supermarkets and other business units and operators.
The reporter learned from the Municipal Food Safety Office that targeted measures will be taken to strictly manage and focus on the illegal killing and trading of live birds during the market closure. The urban management, market supervision, food and drug supervision and other departments carried out special actions to crack down on illegal slaughtering and trading of live poultry in accordance with the Administrative Measures for Poultry Business in Guangdong Province, to ensure the implementation of the market closure policy.
The Notice emphasized that Bao'an District, Longgang District, Guangming District and Dapeng New District, where the non restricted areas of live poultry trading still exist in the city, should immediately start the work of expanding the restricted areas in accordance with the municipal government's work plan for poultry "centralized slaughtering, cold chain distribution, and fresh listing", and include the remaining areas into the sales ban organization.