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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9204

3 June 2006
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/bird flu
EU extends poultry import ban to all Romania

Brussels, 02/06/2006 (Agence Europe) - On 2 June, the Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health decided to extend to the whole of Romania the EU ban on the import of poultry and poultry products, because of the upsurge of the H5N1 bird flu virus throughout the country. Hitherto, the EU ban was restricted to Romanian counties affected by the epizootic (see EUROPE 9186). There has been a rapid spread of the H5N1 virus in Romania since mid-May, after its first appearance in the...

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