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The Food & Environmental Hygiene Department has declared May 10 the next poultry rest day. Market stalls and fresh provision shops selling live poultry must suspend business in the afternoon and evening for thorough cleaning and disinfection.
Live poultry may still be on sale in the morning of May 10, but none will be sold from noon until the following morning.
Poultry retailers must observe rest-day conditions and ensure that all live poultry remaining in their stalls or shops are slaughtered before noon on the rest day.
Stall owners and licensees must not remove any unsold live poultry from their premises to avoid slaughtering them before the start of the rest day.
The department will inspect poultry outlets on the rest day. Failure to comply with the rest-day conditions will lead to immediate cancellation of fresh-provision shop licences or termination of market-stall tenancies.
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