Duck and other poultry from Canada may again be exported to Mexico, for the first time since 2004.
Canada’s Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay and International Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland on Thursday announced Mexico had reopened its border to fresh poultry meat including chicken, turkey and, “most significant in terms of historical trade,” duck.
Mexico had closed its ports to the Canadian products in 2004 following Canada’s first outbreak of a highly pathogenic (“high-path”) strain of avian influenza, when H7N3 hit commercial poultry farms in British Columbia’s Fraser Valley.
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