Cambodia to relax rules on Indian frozen meat imports

The Kingdom in June lifted a ban on the import of frozen meats and other frozen items classified as ‘high-risk’ originating from India. - AFP

PHNOM PENH (The Phnom Penh Post/Asia News Network): Cambodia is looking to end a requirement for samples of frozen Indian meat imports to be collected and tested for the novel coronavirus, due to the low incidence of the pathogen on recent shipments, as well as improvements in the South Asian country’s epidemiological situation.

This and other decisions were reached at a virtual Oct 20 meeting of an ad-hoc commission in charge of preventing the spread of SARS-CoV-2 – the pathogen that causes Covid-19 – through “high-risk” goods originating from countries with a perceived high prevalence of the disease.