Yantai, a coastal city in east China's
Shandong Province, has resumed poultry export to Japan,
following a Japanese decision made on August 7 to partially lift
its import ban on Chinese chicken, turkey and fowl eggs.
Some 260 tons of chicken meat, packed in 16 containers, have passed
the quarantine tests of the Japanese ministry of agriculture,
forestry and fisheries before being exported to Japan, said sources
from a local trading company.
"This is the first poultry shipment since Japan's lift of the ban,"
said a local trade official.
The import ban, based solely on a test result from the Republic of
Korea, has led to two months' suspension of poultry trade between
China and Japan, causing tremendous losses for the Chinese poultry
industry.
Major Yantai-based food processing enterprises, with their
first-class facilities and management systems, have guaranteed
quality poultry products for export, said the trade official.
(Xinhua News
Agency 09/17/2001)