Both the Canadian Food Inspection Agency and Canadian Border Services Agency are urging Canadian travellers not to bring back poultry products from the US.
A total of 15 states, including Minnesota and North Dakota are part of a poultry products ban because of the avian flu outbreak taking place in the United States.
According to Jason Evert, the CBSA's chief of operations at the Emerson crossing, people who have poultry products with them at the border can dispose of them before re-entering Canada.
"That's one thing that we're doing right now is if people have them when they arrive at the border, we're documenting them, and then we're disposing of them. We keep them here in a freezer until we can take them into Winnipeg for destruction."
Evert says some of the products covered under the ban include live birds, eggs, poultry meat and feathers.
