EU tries to calm trade partners over bird flu
PARIS, Feb 25 (Reuters) The European Union urged its trading partners today not to overreact to an outbreak of bird flu in France after Japan suspended all French poultry impors and threatened a similar ban on the Netherlands. Confirmation of the H5N1 strain in France, at a farm where thousands of turkys have died or now been culled, threatens to deal a severe blow to France's poultry indstry, worth 6 billion euros 7 billion dollars a year and the biggest in the 25-nation EU.
The Netherlands is the next biggest European producer, with exports of live birds, meat nd eggs worth about 1.5 billion euros a year.
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