# Import of poultry meat and products from Kittitas County of State of Washington in US suspended

> Hong Kong's Centre for Food Safety suspended poultry meat and egg imports from Kittitas County, Washington, after WOAH reported a highly pathogenic H5N1 outbreak there. Hong Kong imported about 33,270 tonnes of poultry meat from the US in the first nine months of the year.

- Date: 2026-11-02 · published 2026-11-02T21:08:47.239Z
- Category: disease · region US · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/75834-import-of-poultry-meat-and-products-from-kittitas-county-of-state-of-washington
- Commodities: [Chicken](https://feedsoft.ai/c/CHICKEN.md)

## Why it matters

A single-county import ban is a small regional trade restriction, but it adds to the pattern of avian flu disrupting US poultry export flows.

## Read by commodity

- CHICKEN: bearish ▼

## Sources

- cfs.gov.hk: https://www.cfs.gov.hk/english/press/20261102_12709.html

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