BIRD FLU OUTBREAK – EU ACTIONS – TURKEY, ROMANIA
October 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Commission has banned poultry meat and live bird exports from Romania into the European Union (EU) following the confirmation of its bird flu outbreak and the earlier imposition of an import ban of live birds and feathers from Turkey for the same region. Similar restrictions are now expected regarding Greece's poultry and poultry meat, following its confirmed outbreak. The Commission has also ordered urgent tests on dead birds in Croatia. Meanwhile, EU ministers have ordered EU member states to reduce contact between wild birds and ...
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