Ban Over Bird Flu Lifted At UK Auction
Published February 22nd, 2007
This Is Lancashire - AUCTION mart bosses are celebrating after the ban on bird sales imposed following the avian flu outbreak in Suffolk was lifted.
Organisers of Clitheroe Auction Mart’s popular Wednesday night fur and feather sale welcomed the news and said the restrictions had hit business hard.
The ban came in to affect when it was discovered that turkeys at a Bernard Matthews farm in Holton, Suffolk, were infected with the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu earlier this month.
As well as an exclusion zone around the Suffolk site and the slaughter of 160,000 birds, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) banned all bird sales and shows throughout England.
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