The Saudi Food and Drug Authority temporarily banned importing poultry meat, table eggs, products and equipment from Kherson Governorate in Ukraine because of a proliferated ferocious type of Avian influenza (“bird flu”) based upon a report from the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE).
Excluded from the temporary ban are the poultry meat, eggs and their products that are thermally treated in a way that ensures destroying the avian flu virus provided that the imported products are in conformity with the Saudi Arabian approved health requirements and standards and a health certificate by a competent official authority in Ukraine be attached to the imported products. The temporary ban lasts until poultry health is restored and the situation returns to normal.
For more information, please visit the following link:
https://www.sfda.gov.sa/ar/food/news/Pages/food4-1-2017a2.aspx