
On March 20, 2021, the decision of the European Commission to resume the trade in chicken MEAT between Ukraine and the EU countries will come into force.
The European Union has adopted the zoning of Ukraine for highly pathogenic avian influenza, wrote on her FACEBOOK page the chairman of the State Food and Consumer Service Vladislava Magaletska, the former Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine for European Integration.
Magaletska noted that the decision of the European Commission opens up the possibility of exporting Ukrainian broiler meat to Western Europe, despite the quarantine restrictions in place in those regions where outbreaks of avian influenza were recorded.
The first reports of epizootic foci of avian influenza in Ukraine appeared at the end of 2020. On February 18, an outbreak was registered in the village of Klavdievo-Tarasovo, Kyiv region. In early March, the State Food and Consumer Service confirmed the death of wild swans from highly pathogenic avian influenza A (H5N8) in the Kherson region.