date:Jan 19, 2016
South Korea has imposed a ban on the import of poultry and poultry meat from the US after a new strain of bird flu was discovered in several farms.
The ban on imports emerges two months after shipments resumed, Reuters reported.
In November, South Korea stopped a ban on importing US poultry and fresh meat, which brought 4,500t of poultry meat treated with heat and 37,000 chickens into the country.
The recent ban does not include imports of poultry meat treated with heat.
The US Department of