Luxembourg, 08/04/2003 (Agence Europe) - The Standing Committee on the food chain and animal health approved, on Tuesday, a proposal aimed at a two-week extension to the embargo on the sale and transport of poultry meat from the Netherlands. The decision was taken in response to a very first outbreak, on Friday, of avian influenza in the Dutch province of Limburg (where nearly 40 million chickens are farmed), located near the Belgian and German borders. Until then, the epizootic had been...