KUWAIT CITY: Kuwait has lifted ban on imports of live birds and chicken from Germany and Britain after determining that they are free of bird flu. Faisal Al-Hasawi, Acting General Director of the Public Authority for Agriculture and Fisheries, said in a statement yesterday that poultry imports must meet terms, set by the livestock department at the authority, also according to regulations of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the veterinary laws, adopted by the State of Kuwait and other member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).
Al-Hasawi affirmed that imports of livestock infected with communicable diseases and epidemics will be turned back to the exporting origin and that expenses for shipping the products back would be covered by the importer. He further explained that lifting the ban on importing birds and poultry from Britain and Germany was based on WHO reports affirming that these livestock in the two countries are free of the bird flu and that no more cases have been recorded.
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