A ban on the import of poultry meat and products and live chickens, hatching eggs and day-old chicks from the US into the European Union will be imposed on products from Nevada and Arizona, as well as California, the EU Council of Ministers has decided.

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The introduction of the ban is a result of California’s Newcastle Disease outbreak.

EU ministers were trying to decide whether restrictions on a limited area of the US was practical.

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