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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9252
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/epizootics

Transport of cattle to slaughter can resume in surveillance areas established due to bluetongue outbreak

Brussels, 28/08/2006 (Agence Europe) - During their meeting in Brussels on Monday afternoon, Member States' experts within the Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health approved a number of adaptations to ease the measures taken on Monday 21 August to contain the bluetongue outbreak in several areas of the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. In the 20 km zone surrounding the areas where the outbreaks occurred, where all movements of cattle were prohibited, animal transport to...

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