WASHINGTON — After a thorough risk evaluation, the USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is reducing existing trade restrictions on the importation of unvaccinated live poultry from France and unvaccinated live ducks from the APHIS-recognized European Poultry Trade Region (EPTR), as well as Iceland, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and Norway.
The restrictions, which took effect Oct. 1, 2023, resulted from France’s decision to vaccinate commercial meat ducks and some breeding ducks against highly pathogenic avian influenza. APHIS evaluated the HPAI vaccination practices in France to determine if HPAI vaccination significantly impacts the likelihood that unmitigated poultry commodities capable of. . .
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